The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady

This is one of the most important women's journals of the sixteenth century. The heiress of a wealthy landowner, she married three times, including the Puritan Thomas Hoby. Her diaries reveal life on her estate in North Yorkshire, and great events such as the legal case in the Star Chamber which took her to London. With full notes and over thirty illustrations, this is major contribution to our knowledge of life in Tudor and early Jacobean England, written when women were expected to be silent.