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Beau Brummell

1778–1840

George Bryan “Beau” Brummell was a leading figure in Regency society whose restrained clothing, meticulous grooming and social confidence helped redefine elite men’s fashion. A friend of the Prince Regent, he became famous for wit and judgement rather than inherited title or great wealth.

Gambling debts and a break with the prince drove him into exile in France, where his circumstances declined and he died in an asylum at Caen in 1840. Beau Brummell was born in Downing Street and died in Caen.

In Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ The Victory, the Morlands move between Beau Brummell’s fashionable London and the dangers of naval war, culminating in the Battle of Trafalgar. Public victory does not protect the family from private loss: duty at sea, religious conscience and illicit affection demand conflicting sacrifices. Beau Brummell is treated fictionally in Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Beau Brummell (2 series)

Morland Dynasty in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 36 books 4.4(27,265)

The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…

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Alastair-Audley in Order

by Georgette Heyer 4 books 4.5(24,030)

The Alastair–Audley novels form a loose multigenerational sequence linking Georgian family drama with the Regency and the Battle of Waterloo. These Old Shades introduces Justin Alastair and Léonie, while Devil’s Cub follows the next generation through their son, Dominic. Regency Buck shifts to Judith and Peregrine Taverner under…

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