Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age.
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated by the reviewer who hailed it as more enthralling than a best-seller, and by the Times Literary Supplement which described it as having almost every sentence based on contemporary description.
1. Englands Elizabeth and Elizabeths England
2. The Great Amendment
of Lodging
3. The Elizabethan at Home
4. London Town
5. Round the Town
6.
The Queens Highway
7. The Queens Map-Maker
8. Country Life and the
Country-Side
9. Country Folk and Country Ways
10. Master and Man and
Masterless Men
11. Religion
12. Childhood and Education
13. The University
14. Young and Old Come Forth to Play
15. The Theatre
16. Wonder-Books and
Old Wives Tales
17. An Elizabethan Day
M. St. Clare Byrne was a historian specialising in the study of Tudor England.
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