Gentlemen and Players
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Gentlemen and Players

The Story of Miss Pagett, Miss Susan Pagett and Miss Sophia Pagett

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eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780571320813
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Family Tree
  8. Preface to the 2014 Edition
  9. 1: Miss Fitzwilliam of Lynmore Hall
  10. 2: The London Season
  11. 3: A Change in the Family
  12. 4: Sophie Is a Beauty
  13. 5: First Marriage
  14. 6: In Which Nicholas Plays Host to the Upper Ten Thousand
  15. 7: Sisters
  16. 8: Susan Is a Spinster
  17. 9: The Rector
  18. 10: The Rectory
  19. 11: Second Marriage
  20. 12: Third Marriage
  21. 13: Thomas Goes
  22. 14: Desertion
  23. 15: Love
  24. 16: Children
  25. 17: More Love
  26. 18: Sickness
  27. 19: Sophia Sacheverell
  28. 20: Susan Potter
  29. 21: Sarah Templecombe
  30. 22: Flora Comes
  31. 23: Gentleman of this Parish
  32. Copyright