Season A Summer Whirl Through the English Social Season

Name: Season A Summer Whirl Through the English Social Season
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ISBN: 9781845137038

ISBN-10: 1845137035

ISBN-13: 9781845137038

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sophie Campbell

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Every year come April, since the days of the Prince Regent in the early nineteenth century, young men and women have structured their summer diary around a series of showpiece social events all within reach of London that, if one really does have a profile to maintain, one just must be seen at, darling. The Boat Race and the Cheltenham Festival in March provide the unofficial overture, and then it is the Chelsea Flower Show followed by Royal Ascot, Glorious Goodwood, the Derby, Henley Regatta, opera at Glyndebourne and Cowes Week. Dedicated Season veterans might insist on adding the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition and the Lord’s Test. Here, Sophie Campbell sets out to tackle the Season –…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group UK
Publication date: 6/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Sophie Campbell is from Niles, Michigan. "Brave, a Book about Courage" is her first published book at age 12. She enjoys playing soccer, writing, hiking, and spending time with her friends and family. Campbell aspires to be an Olympic soccer player or swimmer.



Prologue: Strange Bedfellows



A Toe in the Water



Getting In



The Last Truck to Chelsea



A Garden Grows by the River



Not a Thing to Wear



The Ups and Downs of Epsom



And All for a Bunch of Students



The Merry Monarch Shows His Serious Side



The Butterflies Emerge



Music on the Mittel Downs



Nobody's Looking at You, Dear



Toppers and Tails



The Royal Enclosure at Last



The Perfectly Packed Basket



The Last of the Gilded Youth



The Butterflies Take Off



The Tented Village



The Carpet of Green



The Long Stretch



Hello, Real World



Chukkas and Chavs



The Sultan of Speed



Red Sails in the Sunset


Epilogue: The Butterfly Summer


Acknowledgements


Notes


Bibliography


Index