Vol. 2, Chapters 1-10: 0:00-In Cheltenham. 3:29 —“Cherry Ripe.” 4:40 —Lady Babbleton & Sir John Tyrell. 9:01 —Oh, you satirist! 11:51 —A sunbeam caught. 14:09 —A bold, bad man. 18:28 —In London. 20:40 —Wildean maxims. 22:50 —Pelham’s ego. 22:43 —Visiting Glanville, seeing Thornton. 26:38 —Motherly advice. 28:01 —At Lady Roseville’s. 29:38 —Pelham’s seat. 31:02 —Interlude.

Vol. 2, Chapter 11: 32:07 —Single-sticking. 38:07 —A night on the town. 43:28 —Harriss’s List of Covent Garden Ladies. 52:52 —Birch discipline. 57:37 —Ornaments to the female world. 1:00:01 —Covent Garden women. 1:08:33 —Reading the List. 1:11:32 —Interlude.

Vol. 2, Chapters 12-14: 1:12:40 —Mock-epic. 1:15:22 —Dipping into St. Giles. 1:20:05 —Blue ruin. 1:24:12 —The Irish Rookery. 1:25:58 —Economic distress. 1:27:31 —Introducing Job Jonson. 1:29:30 —Remembering Jemmy Gordon. 1:31:37 —Urban leisure activities. 1:32:52 —Deceased duchess. 1:24:28 —Interlude.  

Vol. 2 Chapters 15-28: 1:35:36 —Moral literature. 1:41:33 —Tories & Whigs. 1:42:24 —Glanville/Byron. 1:47:30 —Frame story. 1:54:34 —In walks Thornton. 1:58:18 —Cultural collision 2:00:50 —Boatswain’s mate. 2:09:19 —Clarke’s doggerel. 2:11:41 —Bad Byron. 2:13:14 —Cherry buried. 2:14:57 —Animal spirits. 2:22:05 —Farce to foreboding. 2:26:54 —One long school day. 2:29:29 —Oh, the humanities! 2:32 : 37—A dark pursuer. 2:38:01 —Closing.

Text: Edward Bulwer Lytton, “Pelham, or the Adventures of a Gentleman.” 1828. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1972.

Interludes: Charles Horn, “Cherry Ripe” (c. 1826), arranged and performed by Jim Paterson (https://www.mfiles.co.uk/scores/cherry-ripe-piano-solo.htm).

Additional music: “Cherry Ripe,” Robert Herrick (lyrics) and Charles Horn (music), performed by Village Voices, Buckinghamshire, UK (http://www.villagevoiceschoir.net).

Sound effects: Pixabay.

“USA”: myinstants.com.

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