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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherMoyer Bell
ISBN-101559212373
ISBN-139781559212373
eBay Product ID (ePID)453773
Product Key Features
Book TitleCoronation Summer
Number of Pages175 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
TopicGeneral, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorAngela Thirkell
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-011866
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal823/.912
SynopsisA rarity in the Thirkell canon, this charming and witty historical novel is set in the coronation summer of 1838, when the young Victoria, scarcely older than the tale's narrator, Fanny Harcourt, assumes the throne of England. The seventeen-year-old Fanny's journey from her native Norfolk to London, where she takes up residence with close friend Emily Dacre (and her father as chaperone) in a Queen Street apartment for the six weeks of festivities surrounding Victoria's corination, allows Thirkell a splendid opportunity to portray the excitements of the capital and its environs through unsophisticated yet sharply discerning eyes. Thirkell's fictional experiment will surprise and delight her established fans and win her new admirers among those enchanted with Victoriana.