...earliest great collection of family letters in English. The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III, in a period of political turmoil, local anarchy, and war abroad and at home. They reveal personal hopes...

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...2000. Faith, Rosamund. The English Peasantry and the Growth of Lordship. Leicester, 1997. Fenn, John. Original Letters, Written During the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. 5 vols. London, 1787-1823. Fentress, James, and Chris Wickham. Social Memory. Oxford, 1992. Finch,...

...gave a modernized version on the facing pages.) He did not mention the Pastons in his title, which was Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard HI. By various Persons of Rank or Consequence; but from the fact that Hannah More wrote to her sister...

...literary sensation when he began to issue a series of volumes entitled, in the manner of the time, Original Letters, Written during the Reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV. and Richard HI. by Various Persons of Rank or Consequence, and ever since then the numerous surviving private letters...

...Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illuminator (Fort Lauderdale: Nova/NYIT University Press, 1976). 190 Fenn,J. (ed.). Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry...Edward IV, and Richard III, by various persons of rank or consequence, 5 vols (London: GG J . and J. Robinson, 1787-1823). Ferguson, AB The Indian Summer...