BOOK 2
TOP HAT AND TAILS
(ETON COLLEGE)

Chapter 1
1.1: Career: going up in the world
1.2: Parents & siblings: the background situation
1.3: Authority: reassembling the family retainers
1.4: Identity: someone too full of himself
Chapter 2
2.1: Career: finding my feet at Eton
2.2: Sex: approaching puberty
2.3: Siblings: moving into our separate grooves
Chapter 3
3.1: Parents: inheriting the marquisate
3.2: Identity: becoming a viscount
3.3: Activities: expansion within limited horizons
3.4: Parents: the schism reappears
Chapter 4
4.1: Sex: a gravely traumatic period
4.2: Parents: the seeds of rupture with my father are sown
4.3: Siblings: a struggle to maintain status
4.4: Sex: reasserting myself against my tormentors
Chapter 5
5.1: Identity: wobbled, but finally settling
5.2: Parents: the positive and the negative relationship
5.3: Siblings: distinct, and keeping our distance
5.4: Authority: beginning to make my mark
5.5: Sex: puberty at last
Chapter 6
6.1:Activities:gearing myself for future accomplishments
6.2: Parents: endeavouring to expurgate my guilt
6.3: Authority: losing out to others on status
6.4: Sex: fraternal jealousy rears its ugly head
Chapter 7
7.1: Parents: Longleat is thrown open to the public
7.2: Activities: beginning to feel my stride
7.3: Authority: capitulation and readjustment
7.4: Siblings: firming up on my separateness
7.5: Sex: keeping to the straight path
Chapter 8
8.1: Identity: first blooms in creativity
8.2: Activities: some flushes of achievement
8.3: Authority: a taste of power
8.4: Parents: maintaining an authoritarian upbringing
Chapter 9
9.1: Activities & Identity: full bloom of adolescence
9.2: Authority: climbing to the top of the slippery pole
9.3: Siblings: the definitive position
9.4: Sex: my efforts to emerge as an adult male
Chapter 10
10.1: Authority: the fruits of success
10.2: Activities & Identity: resting on my laurels
10.3: Sex: playing safe
10.4: Parents: rumbles of thunder in the distance
10.5: Identity: the final school reports