Fic: In the Wake of His Dreams - Chapter 3

[face_the_fall]

Title: In the Wake of His Dreams - Chapter 3
rating: PG-13 (will increase in later chapters)
word count: ~1,800 for this chapter /  ~5,400 total
summary:  It's the summer of 1926.  The Hummels, wealthy heirs of a family that found their fortune in steamships, are vacationing at their mansion in Newport, Rhode Island.  Kurt longs for a summer romance,

Comments

[chouxi]

Isn't Blaine just smooth. Good chapter!

[nittyismyname]

Wow, just loving this!

[camillo1978]

Mmmmm, this is lovely. Poor uptight Philedelphia Kurt, confronted by this gorgeous, European-travelled, New York Blaine.

I don't know what high society was like in America in the twenties. England seems to have had a strange attitude, with people like Ivor Novello and Noel Coward being wildly popular and entering relationships that their circle of collegues and friends certainly knew about, but the general population not being at all accepting. It's almost like a class thing - the posher you were, the more you could get away with.

Interestingly, I read that Noel Coward's play, Design For Living, debuted in New York rather than London because theatre was closely censored in London until 44 years ago. The theme of bisexuality and menage a trois was ok for America but not Britain!

I can't wait for more of this - Blaine is fascinatingly brazen and the setting is sooo pretty ;-)