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Excerpt from Home Life Under the Stuarts: 1603-1649 History is a delightful study, not only to the profound student but also to the casual reader, especially when it deals with a period sufficiently near our own to enable us to enter into the motives and points of view how nations actors. It is always interesting to learn how nations grew, how territories were conquered, and kings set up or cast down; but there is a certain byway of history which to many minds has a peculiar fascination, which is not concerned with Acts of Parliament and Treaties, with growth of Constitutions or territorial changes, but tells of the ordinary everyday life of people at home, how they lived, how they dressed, how they brought up their children, what they read, what amusements they preferred, how they commented to each other in private letters on passing events, and how their individual lives were affected by them. This it is, this love of the gossip of bygone ages, of the personal details that give a sense of reality, that lends to the historical novel such an unfailing popularity. The worst of this form of literature is that the author is fettered by no obligation of conscientious veracity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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