Chapter 2 Scene 2

A shooting party

Chapter 2 Scene 2

I couldn't find good pics of Edwardian shooting parties. These ones look more dreary than I would have hoped for for my ladies.

Inverness, by the way is here for anyone unsure about it's location.

This painting gives a bit more of an idea I suppose.

This a from a movie but I think it gives a picture of women's costumes quite well.

In the scene Alice says that Gweondolyn was taught to shoot by Annie Oakley (who has toured England at the end of the Nineteenth Century.  Of course Gwendolyn is exceedingly rich and this is not unlikely in any event, But I offer this quote from Wikipedia

"Throughout her career, it is believed that Oakley taught upwards of 15,000 women how to use a gun. Oakley believed strongly that it was crucial for women to learn how to use a gun, as not only a form of physical and mental exercise, but also to defend themselves.^[10] She said:"I would like to see every woman know how to handle [firearms] as naturally as they know how to handle babies."!"

 On the right is the real Annie Oakley on the left is Gail Davis who was the TV Annie of my youth.

She came into my life most recently in the form of Jane Horrocks at the Young Vic. Not that it is relevant to my story but Horrocks was brilliant!!!

 And now for Gwendolyn's car which makes its first appearance in this scene. I think it looked something like this.









Lastly Colonel Mortimer Angel is in this scene. To me he still looks like this.