The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood
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.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.
Adrian Tinniswood is senior research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham and the author of the forthcoming Behind the Throne as well as New York Times bestselling The Long Weekend and The Verneys, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Tinniswood has contributed to the London Times, the New York Times, History Today, BBC History Magazine, and The Literary Review, as well as television and radio programs in the US and UK. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage by her majesty, the Queen, and lives in Bath, England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594489488 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594489483 |
| Title | The Verneys |
| Author | Adrian Tinniswood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Year published | 2007-05-10 |
| Number of pages | 569 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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