Room at the Top
Rosalind Mitchison, 15 November 1984
An Open Elite? England 1540-1880
by Lawrence Stone and Jeanne FawtierStone.
Oxford, 566 pp., £24, September 1984,0 19 822645 4 Show More
by Lawrence Stone and Jeanne FawtierStone.
Oxford, 566 pp., £24, September 1984,
“... Cragside, took over. This three-in-one book links up with the other major works of Lawrence Stone: The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641 gives the setting for the first part of the period, and the family papers he studied for that book and for his more loosely structured. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 give many of the instances of ... ”