The Verneys : a true story of love, war, and madness in seventeenth-century England /
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
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2007
New York, N.Y. : 2007 |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1: Edmund and Ralph. Francis turns Turk
- Venturous knights
- Sufficient intellectuals
- I will provide
- A little fading honour
- The best of men
- Fortune's wheel is ever turning
- This world is full of changes
- I do not like the quarrel
- Pt. 2: Ralph and Mary. A strange cruelty
- Mischief
- Oh my my dear dear
- Giro d'Italia
- Pt. 3: Mun and Jack. None but princes
- Mend me or end me
- Perfect empress of my heart
- All the physic in the world
- She doth not rave
- The levant trader
- Natural bias
- Good husbandry
- Without escutcheons
- He grows weary