The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement

Bridget Boland [Compiler]; Muriel St. Clare Byrne [Editor]; Hugh Trevor-Roper [Foreword];

ISBN 10: 0226088006 / ISBN 13: 9780226088006

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226088006
• ISBN 13: 9780226088006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 34 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.