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“This is surely the way history really works, colliding into our quotidian lives and then ricocheting away again.”
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“[A] wonderfully engaging biography...Tinniswood has brought the Verneys to life in robustly vivid style.”
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“A wonderful family saga...a model for how biography and social history...can be made to work magnificently together.”
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“A compelling drama of marriage, death, madness, adventure and travel...[a] very engaging book.”
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From the chance discovery in an attic of thousands of letters comes this fascinating story of an English family in the seventeenth century. The Verneys is narrative social history at its best.
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“This is surely the way history really works, colliding into our quotidian lives and then ricocheting away again.”
—The New York Times
“[A] wonderfully engaging biography...Tinniswood has brought the Verneys to life in robustly vivid style.”
—Guardian
“A wonderful family saga...a model for how biography and social history...can be made to work magnificently together.”
—The Economist
“More real-life melodramas than a Restoration tragedy.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A compelling drama of marriage, death, madness, adventure and travel...[a] very engaging book.”
—Sunday Times (UK) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Product Description
From the chance discovery in an attic of thousands of letters comes this fascinating story of an English family in the seventeenth century. The Verneys is narrative social history at its best.
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TO KNOW THE VERNEY FAMILY is to understand seventeenth-century England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir Ralph, Sir Edmund, Uncle Doctor, William Denton, East Claydon, Covent Garden, Gabriel Roberts, Middle Claydon, Aunt Gardiner, Doll Leeke, Lady Hobart, Will Roades, Chancery Lane, Sir Roger Burgoyne, Prince Henry, Aunt Isham, Sir Alexander, Aunt Sherard, Lady Anne, Levant Company, Prince of Wales, Van Dyck, Prince Charles, Jack Verney, Sir John Leeke Browse Sample Pages:
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TO KNOW THE VERNEY FAMILY is to understand seventeenth-century England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir Ralph, Sir Edmund, Uncle Doctor, William Denton, East Claydon, Covent Garden, Gabriel Roberts, Middle Claydon, Aunt Gardiner, Doll Leeke, Lady Hobart, Will Roades, Chancery Lane, Sir Roger Burgoyne, Prince Henry, Aunt Isham, Sir Alexander, Aunt Sherard, Lady Anne, Levant Company, Prince of Wales, Van Dyck, Prince Charles, Jack Verney, Sir John Leeke Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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