The Lisle Letters (Six Volume Set)
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The Lisle Letters consist of the personal official and business correspondence of the household of Arthur Plantagenet Viscount Lisle the illegitimate but acknowledged son of Edward IV during the years 1533 to 1540 when he was Lord Deputy of Calais. These seven critical years in English history were marked by the rise ascendency and fall of Thomas Cromwell and the letters reflect the mixture of passion terror and politics that was the court of Henry VIII. They also present the everyday concerns of the Lisle household. No other source provides such an abundance of detail about daily life - marriage child rearing education clothing food and furnishing. The Lisle Letters are the Tudor world in microcosm.
