The Private Correspondence of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon, 1613-1644

|The letters of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon, 16131644, offer the richly illuminating story of a loving mother and devoted friend. Cumulatively, they provide an unfolding, sometimes self-dramatizing, narrative that details the life of a privileged woman and her family throughout the turbulent years of the early seventeenth century. The correspondents vary from closest relations to distant friends, and readers share in the pleasures and disappointments that form a natural part of daily life. The …