An Account of an Elizabethan Family
- ISBN-10
- 1108492517
- ISBN-13
- 9781108492515
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-02-28
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Cassandra Willoughby Brydges Duchess of Chandos
Description
This volume is an invaluable portrait of family, kinship, regional and national dynamics in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Based on letters and papers that Cassandra Willoughby found in the family library, her Account focuses on the women of the family, and offers insight into sixteenth-century family dynamics, gentry culture and court connections.
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