
Gentlemen and Players
The Story of Miss Pagett, Miss Susan Pagett and Miss Sophia Pagett
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Gentlemen and Players
The Story of Miss Pagett, Miss Susan Pagett and Miss Sophia Pagett
About this book
Gentleman and Players (1984) was the second novel by the prodigiously gifted Frances Vernon (1963-1991), and served confirmation of what the
TLS called her 'highly original talent.'
Three sisters make their purposeful ways through Victorian society. Sarah, the eldest, makes an ostensibly good marriage, but is given cause to reconsider. Sophie, the youngest, undergoes romantic travails of heartbreak and elopement. Susan, the practical middle child, dispenses wisdom from her perch in a rural rectory. But the objects of their affections are mere 'gentlemen', while the three Misses Pagett are assuredly 'players.'
'A delight... Cool, precise, amused and amusing... Frances Vernon should become a cult figure.' Robert Nye,
Guardian
'An achievement of purposeful economy.' Victoria Glendinning,
Sunday Times
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Family Tree
- Preface to the 2014 Edition
- 1: Miss Fitzwilliam of Lynmore Hall
- 2: The London Season
- 3: A Change in the Family
- 4: Sophie Is a Beauty
- 5: First Marriage
- 6: In Which Nicholas Plays Host to the Upper Ten Thousand
- 7: Sisters
- 8: Susan Is a Spinster
- 9: The Rector
- 10: The Rectory
- 11: Second Marriage
- 12: Third Marriage
- 13: Thomas Goes
- 14: Desertion
- 15: Love
- 16: Children
- 17: More Love
- 18: Sickness
- 19: Sophia Sacheverell
- 20: Susan Potter
- 21: Sarah Templecombe
- 22: Flora Comes
- 23: Gentleman of this Parish
- Copyright