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9780226088006: The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement

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ISBN 10: 0226088006 ISBN 13: 9780226088006

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1983

In a one-volume abridgement, these sixteenth-century letters paint a magnificent portrait of family life amidst the intrigue, terror, and politics of the court of Henry VIII. The culmination of Lord Lisle's imprisonment in the Tower of London.

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Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983) worked for decades to create the six-volume edition of the sixteenth-century letters of Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle. She was a lecturer at Oxford University, the University of London, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was the author or editor of several other books about sixteenth-century England, and also co-authored, with her friend Dorothy L Sayers, the play Busman’s Honeymoon.

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication date1983
ISBN 10 0226088006
ISBN 13 9780226088006
BindingHardcover
Edition number1
Number of pages436
EditorMuriel St. Clare Byrne
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Lord Lisle; Edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne; Selected & Arranged by Bridget Boland; Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper

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