Family Life in the Seventeenth Century - The Verneys of Claydon House

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions with Fine dustjacket whic is price clipped. x + 209 pages. Genealogical chart. In this pioneering study of the Verney family, Professor Slater shows how a family of country gentry lived and behaved in a time of political and social crisis. Most of their energies were directed within the family, their concens with marriage and children, with relationships between members of the Verney clan, with managing their estates and property. They emerge as real people with passions and hatreds, made to live their lives by corrspondence when the head of the family was forced to live abroad as an exile and casualty of the political tumults. But their misfortunes have created a unique archive which allows the author to delve deep into the very heart of their personal lives, and to create an extraordinary collective portrait of a family in a time of troubles. 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.