The scandal of the season
By: Sophie Gee
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781416540564; 9781416545309
Subjects: Social life and customs; Courtship; Upper class families; Fiction
Description: A tale based on the early eighteenth-century scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" finds an impoverished Alexander Pope gaining entry into society and following a forbidden affair between the rakish Lord Petre and the coquettish Arabella.
Notes: Also issued online.