Gentlemen and Players

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

Fiction & Literature
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Author: Frances Vernon ISBN: 9780571320813
Publisher: Faber & Faber Publication: September 18, 2014
Imprint: Faber & Faber Language: English
Author: Frances Vernon
ISBN: 9780571320813
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication: September 18, 2014
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Language: English

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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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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