Napping in the Athenaeum
Jonathan Parry: London Clubland, 8 September 2022
Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members’ Clubs
by Seth AlexanderThévoz.
Robinson, 367 pp., £25, July,978 1 4721 4646 5 Show More
by Seth AlexanderThévoz.
Robinson, 367 pp., £25, July,
“... he dropped the chapter on clubs altogether in his third edition, published in 1971.The title of Seth AlexanderThévoz’s new book suggests a return to Cobbett’s world rather than Sampson’s. His focus is also on Pall Mall, though he ventures occasionally into the empire and more hesitantly into working-men’s ... ”
