Cover of Verneys

Book 2010

Verneys

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Publisher
Penguin Random House
Language
English
Published
2010
  • History
  • Biography
  • Correspondence
  • Social life and customs
  • Family
  • Sources
  • Gentry
  • Families

Traces the story of a seventeenth-century English family as drawn from their personal letters and other documents, discussing how their experiences reflected the realities of period gentry life, in an account that includes coverage of their relationshipswith Parliament and the royal family.