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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... engaging and immediately knowable families." —Sunday Telegraph (UK) "An admirable work of scholarship, written with verve, style, and imagination." -The Spectator (UK) "Faced with four centuries' worth of Verney documents— one of.
... engaging and immediately knowable families." —Sunday Telegraph (UK) "An admirable work of scholarship, written with verve, style, and imagination." -The Spectator (UK) "Faced with four centuries' worth of Verney documents— one of.
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... four centuries' worth of Verney documents— one of the richest hauls of family archives we have— Adrian Tinniswood . . . weaves the lives of Sir Ralph's nine brothers and sisters and innumerable collateral relations and family friends ...
... four centuries' worth of Verney documents— one of the richest hauls of family archives we have— Adrian Tinniswood . . . weaves the lives of Sir Ralph's nine brothers and sisters and innumerable collateral relations and family friends ...
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... Four Centuries of Country House Pisiting r Visions of Tower: Ambition and Architecture from Ancient Times to the Tresent Life in the English Country Cottage Country Houses from the Air The National Trust: Historic Houses of Britain THE ...
... Four Centuries of Country House Pisiting r Visions of Tower: Ambition and Architecture from Ancient Times to the Tresent Life in the English Country Cottage Country Houses from the Air The National Trust: Historic Houses of Britain THE ...
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... four and seven miles an hour. The post between the family's London lodgings in Covent Garden and their country house at Claydon sixty miles away was almost as efficient, with letters arriving within one or two days of being written. The ...
... four and seven miles an hour. The post between the family's London lodgings in Covent Garden and their country house at Claydon sixty miles away was almost as efficient, with letters arriving within one or two days of being written. The ...
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... Four years later Audrey died, and Sir Edmund married his third widow. It was also a third wedding for his wife: Mary Blakeney had already been married to Geffrey Turville of New Hall Park in Leicestershire, and William St. Barbe of ...
... Four years later Audrey died, and Sir Edmund married his third widow. It was also a third wedding for his wife: Mary Blakeney had already been married to Geffrey Turville of New Hall Park in Leicestershire, and William St. Barbe of ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
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 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
Acknowledgments | 511 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
None but Princes | 299 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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