Gentlemen Behaving Badly: Eighteenth Century Rakes and Rascals

When a pious Swiss traveller visited London in the 1720s, he complained that ‘debauch runs riot with an unblushing countenance’. But just how badly behaved was the average English gentleman? Drawing on diaries, letters and gallows confessions, award-winning author Antonia Hodgson explores the lives of several fascinating rogues - from the amiable to the downright deadly.

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