The Early Years

First volume of the Marquess of Bath's memoirs. The Marquess of Bath's public image is that of an indulgent, eccentric, hedonistic, sexual libertine. This book shows that he is all that but he is also a prolific writer, artist, thinker...yet, he has consciously lived his life according to his principle rather than those of his age or kind. Born to a life of privilege, having inherited one of the oldest titles, a fortune and a stately home, he has flouted all the obligatory sexual, social, political conventions in a multitude of ways.