Elizabethan Life in Town and Country

Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated by the reviewer who hailed it as 'more enthralling than a best-seller', and by the Times Literary Supplement which described it as having 'almost every sentence based on contemporary description'.

M. St. Clare Byrne was a historian specialising in the study of Tudor England.

1. England's Elizabeth and Elizabeth's England 2. 'The Great Amendment of Lodging' 3. The Elizabethan at Home 4. London Town 5. Round the Town 6. The Queen's Highway 7. The Queen's Map-Maker 8. Country Life and the Country-Side 9. Country Folk and Country Ways 10. Master and Man and Masterless Men 11. Religion 12. Childhood and Education 13. The University 14. 'Young and Old Come Forth to Play' 15. The Theatre 16. Wonder-Books and Old Wives' Tales 17. An Elizabethan Day