Travellers’ Club House, Pall Mall (Sir Charles Barry)

Travellers’ Club House. Pall Mall. 1867. Life and Works of Sir Charles Barry p107. Alfred Barry [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
Travellers’ Club House. Pall Mall. Plan. Life and Works of Sir Charles Barry p105. Alfred Barry [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
Note: The Travellers' Club was not founded until 1819, which is after the time period of the story quoted below, so this could not actually be Lord Westonbury's club. However, it presented a possibility of what his fictional club might look like, and it has a library noted in the plan so it went with the fact that Wes is reading. :) (Yes, the scene in which this excerpt is found does take place in a gentlemen's club.)

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“Do not tell me you are reading on a fine day instead of riding in the park, taking in the view.”

Lorcan Langley took the seat across from Wes.

“What book is it?” Wes’s long-time friend asked.

Wes chuckled. “You’ll think me daft.”

“Too late, my friend. Most of us already think you to be so.” Langley laughed and Wes joined him.

There was a certain delightful something which could be found in being unpredictable on occasions. It kept one’s friends, as well as one’s mother, on their toes.

[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]

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Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

5 thoughts on “Travellers’ Club House, Pall Mall (Sir Charles Barry)”

  1. OK… I’ll bite. What book was it? See, you have drawn me in. I look forward to seeing what the book is and what mischief Lorcan can cause for his friend when he finds out the title.

    1. From what I have written so far, Lorcan is going to cause a bit of trouble. (And that is probably not nice of me at all to hint at things to come.)

  3. Hmmm…if it’s not his ‘usual’ kind of book, that makes me wonder just what kind of books besides the books of peerage might be in a gentlemen’s club. The traveler’s club must have travelogues and geographies too. But did other clubs have books and what kinds? In the movies you always see a group of very old sirs with white hair snoozing behind their newspapers. I have an overactive naughty imagination and I’ve read too many steamy Regencies.

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