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Memoirs Of The Lives And Characters Of The Illustrious Family Of The Boyles

Memoirs Of The Lives And Characters Of The Illustrious Family Of The Boyles

Budgell, Eustace

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ISBN10: 9354482775
ISBN13: 9789354482779
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Power, patronage, and ambition meet in this panoramic portrait of one of Britain's most influential dynasties: the illustrious family of the Boyles. The Boyles left their mark. Eustace Budgell's Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles is at once an aristocratic family biography and a richly detailed historical memoir collection, following the rise and reach of a great house at the heart of seventeenth century England and early modern Britain. Set amid court, parliament, and country estates, these British nobility memoirs illuminate Boyle family history and British noble lineage while revealing the political and social history that shaped a changing nation. A classic British biography, it speaks to power, duty, belief, and legacy across generations. Both source and story, Budgell's account offers invaluable context for history students and an elegant point of entry for genealogy research into one of the great names of early modern Britain. As a complete Boyle family biography, it rewards casual readers of narrative history as much as scholars tracing lines of descent and influence. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure: a carefully prepared heritage edition that returns a foundational record of British aristocratic life to the shelves of readers, libraries, and classic-literature collectors.

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