Books by Eve LaPlante, David Teems, Francis Bremer, John Fox, and Nathaniel Philbrick, fascinating nonfiction set in the 17th century. |
King James (he commissioned the 1611 Bible that's still the favorite version 400 years on), his son King Charles I (the only English king to be executed), and grandsons Charles II and James II kept the drama level high and dangerous in the seventeenth century. Their marriages and lovers, births and deaths, political intrigues, religious conflicts, witch hunts, and wars marked the beginning of our modern period. Their aristocrats and politicians, tradesmen, midwives, ministers, writers, musicians, scientists, and artists changed the world.
This is a list of authors who have the 17th century covered, from Shakespeare and midwife forensic investigators to barber surgeons, Charles II’s mistresses, men and women who founded American democracy, servants and highway robbers, people who gave their lives for their principles or just because they were falsely accused as witches. In these books you’ll find sumptuous gowns and high society, educated women, poverty, prostitutes, and massacres, childbirth and plague, castles and manors, cathedrals and meetinghouses—even a vampire.
Our ninth or tenth great-grandparents knew these people—or were these people, metaphorically speaking. (Well, probably not the vampire—but everyone else!) Discover what their lives were like, and how their lives formed who you are. Many of the book characters from the 17th century are based on facts, events, and real people. You'll see parallels in economics and politics between then and now. The authors, in addition to their literary skills, have spent months and years in research to get the 17th century world “just right,” so you’ll get your history veggies in a delicious brownie.
Ride the wave of the time-space continuum into the 17th century with these award-winning and highly-rated authors. The images you see are a small sample of what's available from this talented group! Click the highlighted author’s name to open a new tab.
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Jo Ann Butler — From England to New England: survival, love, and a dynasty.
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Susanna Calkins — Murder mysteries set in 1660s London.
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Francine Howarth — Heroines, swashbuckling romance.
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Judith James — Rakes and rogues of the Restoration.
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Elizabeth Kales — French Huguenot survival of Inquisition.
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Juliet Haines Mofford — True crime of New England, pirates.
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Mary Novik — Rev. John Donne and daughter.
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Donald Michael Platt — Spanish Inquisition cloak and dagger.
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Katherine Pym — London in the 1660s.
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Diane Rapaport — Colonial New England true crime.
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Peni Jo Renner — Salem witch trials.
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Anita Seymour — Royalists and rebels in English Civil War.
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Mary Sharratt — Witches (healers) of Pendle Hill, 1612.
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Alison Stuart — Time-slip war romance, ghosts.
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Sam Thomas — Midwife solves murders in city of York.
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Suzy Witten — Salem witch trials.
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Andrea Zuvich — Vampire in Stuart reign, Duke of Monmouth and mistress.
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