The Season in Literature and Popular Culture
- A London Season features in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and is often a key plot device in Regency romance novels.
- The novel Lucia in London by E. F. Benson is set during the London season in the 1920s.
- Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence uses the New York social season as a backdrop.
- The novel The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and the film by Luchino Visconti, portray the Palermitan season during the Risorgimento.
- Julian Fellowes's novel, Past Imperfect, takes place during the 1968 Season in London.
- In the 2003 film What a Girl Wants, Lord Henry Dashwood invites his new-found daughter Daphne to attend the London Season.
- The 2009 young-adult novel, The Season, by Sarah MacLean portrays a young woman entering her first London Season.
- Another film using the London Season as a backdrop is the historic romantic comedy "An Ideal Husband" starring Rupert Everett, Minnie Driver, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore.
- Vincente Minnelli's The Reluctant Debutante
- Downton Abbey, released in 2010, mostly features the relationships of and between the two eldest daughters of the fictional Earl of Grantham. However, during the course of the series, the outspoken youngest daughter Sybil is presented to society in London. The family are also portrayed to move to London for the duration of the season, returning to their country pile at the end of it.
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