The Verneys
A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-century England
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 6, 2008
The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents.
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- Who it’s for
- A lived-in slice of English history, with love, war, and unraveling close at hand.
- Genres
- Stuart Britain (1603-1714), Lives in History, 17th-Century History
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, May 6, 2008
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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.
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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.
History, Lived
A lived-in slice of English history, with love, war, and unraveling close at hand.
Come here for
- seventeenth-century England, plainly told
- history with biography’s private-weather detail
Expect
- a sustained narrative flow
- cultural context without the museum glass
Where it sits
| Stuart Britain (1603-1714) | 94% |
|---|---|
| 17th-Century History | 65% |
| Lives in History | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Royal Lives
- British History
- 17th-Century History
- Authors
- Adrian Tinniswood
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- May 6, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Royal Lives