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The Verneys
Adrian Tinniswood
(Jonathan Cape)
"wonderfully engaging...Tinniswood has brought the
Verneys to life in robustly vivid style" The Guardian
Madness, piracy, murder and adultery – The Verneys tells
the story of a unique English family in the seventeenth century.
Based on the near-miraculous survival of tens of thousands
of Verney family letters in an attic, Adrian Tinniswood explores
the history of one family in the most intimate detail. By
drawing on this wealth of personal correspondence, he reveals
the private and public world of members of the Buckinghamshire
gentry, offering extraordinary insights into 16th Century
family life.
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Adrian Tinniswood is a historian and educationalist. He
lectures regularly in Britain and the US, and was for many
years consultant to the National Trust on heritage education.
He is the author of eleven books of social and architectural
history including His Invention So Fertile, his
acclaimed biography of Sir Christopher Wren. His most recent
book was By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great
Fire of London.
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