The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 6 mai 2008 - 592 pages 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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... wife of Sir Edmund Verney . Lady Margaret was sensitive about exposing her scarred left arm , which makes this portrayal of her particularly intriguing . VERNEY JAN RALPH VERNEY Eldest son of Sir Edmund and Lady Margaret , seen here in ...
... wife of Sir Edmund Verney . Lady Margaret was sensitive about exposing her scarred left arm , which makes this portrayal of her particularly intriguing . VERNEY JAN RALPH VERNEY Eldest son of Sir Edmund and Lady Margaret , seen here in ...
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... wife's jewels . The best of the Claydon furniture was auctioned at Christie's , and the earl himself fled to France to escape his creditors . After his death in 1791 , his prim spinster niece Mary pulled down two- thirds of the house ...
... wife's jewels . The best of the Claydon furniture was auctioned at Christie's , and the earl himself fled to France to escape his creditors . After his death in 1791 , his prim spinster niece Mary pulled down two- thirds of the house ...
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... wife and children , his parents , his nine siblings and their families , his aunts and uncles and friends and neighbors . And because he invariably kept the drafts of his replies , and even his rough jottings , he bequeathed to ...
... wife and children , his parents , his nine siblings and their families , his aunts and uncles and friends and neighbors . And because he invariably kept the drafts of his replies , and even his rough jottings , he bequeathed to ...
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... wife Eliza had died the previous year , married for a second time . His bride was thirty - nine - year - old Frances Parthenope Nightingale , the older sister of Florence . * Parthe , as she was known , had a complicated rela- tionship ...
... wife Eliza had died the previous year , married for a second time . His bride was thirty - nine - year - old Frances Parthenope Nightingale , the older sister of Florence . * Parthe , as she was known , had a complicated rela- tionship ...
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... wife and mother to Sir Harry and his seven children . She was an ob- servant social commentator , publishing novels and short stories exploring the plight of working - class communities , and a host of earnest essays on sub- jects as ...
... wife and mother to Sir Harry and his seven children . She was an ob- servant social commentator , publishing novels and short stories exploring the plight of working - class communities , and a host of earnest essays on sub- jects as ...
Table des matières
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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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The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century ... Adrian Tinniswood Affichage d'extraits - 2007 |
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