The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 2008. máj. 6. - 592 oldal The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. "To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies, through the everyday lives of one extraordinary family. |
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... uncle's marriage to Lettice Giffard, Francis was related to their commander, Captain John GifFard, whose family leased Middle Claydon from the Verneys. Captain John was a favorite with Moulay Zhadane, who paid him twenty-five shillings ...
... uncle's marriage to Lettice Giffard, Francis was related to their commander, Captain John GifFard, whose family leased Middle Claydon from the Verneys. Captain John was a favorite with Moulay Zhadane, who paid him twenty-five shillings ...
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... uncle, another Francis Verney, who was a falconer in Prince Henry's household. Then there was the redoubtable Lady Mary. Edmund's mother was on good terms with Anne of Denmark, and while it is true that Anne didn't get on particularly ...
... uncle, another Francis Verney, who was a falconer in Prince Henry's household. Then there was the redoubtable Lady Mary. Edmund's mother was on good terms with Anne of Denmark, and while it is true that Anne didn't get on particularly ...
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... a neighbor in distress. He was in fact from Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire and the great-great-uncle of the first president of the United States. *The Blacknalls may have fallen victim to the plague, which [*8] part I. Edmund and Ralph.
... a neighbor in distress. He was in fact from Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire and the great-great-uncle of the first president of the United States. *The Blacknalls may have fallen victim to the plague, which [*8] part I. Edmund and Ralph.
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... uncle, Anthony Blagrove, to agree to Mary's marrying their son, and they pressed ahead with the wedding plans as quickly as they could. But they weren't quick enough. Mary's third uncle, Charles Wiseman, was not at all comfortable with ...
... uncle, Anthony Blagrove, to agree to Mary's marrying their son, and they pressed ahead with the wedding plans as quickly as they could. But they weren't quick enough. Mary's third uncle, Charles Wiseman, was not at all comfortable with ...
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... Uncle Blagrove was certainly under that impression. Sir Edmund had to borrow to finance the arrangement, but since Mary's inheritance amounted to around£16,0oo, it was worth it. The guardians assigned him the wardship and agreed to ...
... Uncle Blagrove was certainly under that impression. Sir Edmund had to borrow to finance the arrangement, but since Mary's inheritance amounted to around£16,0oo, it was worth it. The guardians assigned him the wardship and agreed to ...
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Will Provide | 79 |
A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
All the Physic in the World | 355 |
She Doth Not Rave | 379 |
The Levant Trader | 396 |
Natural Bias | 421 |
Good Husbandry | 446 |
Without Escutcheons | 466 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
MUN AND JACK | 297 |
None but Princes | 299 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
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Acknowledgments FII Notes | 513 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century ... Adrian Tinniswood Korlátozott előnézet - 2007 |
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