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In Regency England a profligate son was regarded as every parent's worst nightmare: he symbolized the dangerous temptations of a new consumer society and the failure of parents to instil moral, sexual, and financial self-control in their sons. This book tells the dramatic and moving story of one of those…
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This is the story of someone you will almost certainly never have heard of: William Jackson (1791-1828). His only claim to fame was his extraordinary capacity for getting into debt.
The son of an East India Company Tax Collector who had retired to Bath, England, William manifested his unenviable talent at a remarkably tender age, while still at school in fact, and passed most of his short life on the move, constantly pursued both by his creditors and by his stern and disapproving father.
I loved this book because it reads like a novel yet everything it describes really happened…
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