The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-century England |
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Adrian Tinniswood
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Pages: 500 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0224072552
Pub: Jonathan Cape
Pub date: 2007-03-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 66189
Reader Reviews:
Stuart era soap opera (7/7 people found this helpful)
Adrian has taken the collected letters of the Verneys and turned them into a fascinating story of life in the Civil War and Restoration. The Verney family characters are all uniquely human with frailties and aspirations that are recognisable today, especially in how Sir Ralph Verney tries to maintain the family fortunes, have his sons shoulder responsibilities and marry well with large dowries. The women are not in the background and show how they rebel to the strictures placed on them by society.
Adrian's own views stay in the background except for some, for him, shocking revelations as to personal conduct. Its a surprisingly readable page turning insight into how an aristocratic family copes with being torn apart by the Civil War, with parallel in today's world
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Books -> Subjects -> Biography -> Historical -> 1501-1700
Books -> Subjects -> Biography -> Historical -> Britain -> Tudors & Stuarts: 1501-1700
Books -> Subjects -> History -> Britain & Ireland -> Early Modern 1501-1700 (Tudors, Stuarts, Commonwealth, Restoration, Glorious Revolution)
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