Ralegh's Country: The South West of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I - Paperback

by Joyce Youings (Author)

A detailed demographic, economic, political, and social study of the English counties of Devon and Cornwall, which together comprise the South West of England, the region in which Sir Walter Ralegh was born and reared.

Author Biography

Joyce A. Youings is emeritus professor of history at the University of Exeter. She earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of London. Dr. Youings is a distinguished scholar of Elizabethan history and has authored/edited such noteworthy books as Dissolution of the Monasteries, Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, and Sixteenth Century England (Pelican Social History of England Series).