num_pages: 368
description: A tale based on the early eighteenth-century scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" finds a sickly and impoverished Alexander Pope gaining entry into high society and closely following a forbidden affair between the rakish Lord Petre and the coquettish Arabella. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Scandal of the Season
titlecomplete: The Scandal of the Season
characters: Alexander Pope
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Historical Romance, 18th Century, Historical, Chick Lit, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 1446
publisher: Scribner