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An Introductory Note on Estates and Residences An Introductory Note on Estates and Residences
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Part front matter for Part I The Conway Family and the Conway Papers
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Published:October 2014
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The Conway family in the seventeenth century produced two secretaries of state, a female philosopher, and one of the greatest private book collectors of the era. Conways fought in the Netherlands, settled colonies in Ireland, and speculated in America; they corresponded with many of the leading literary, scientific, ecclesiastical, and political figures of the day. The family’s political influence was felt at local, national, and international levels, and their manuscript archive preserves many uniquely significant documents that would otherwise have been lost. Yet the Conways have rarely received serious attention from historians, an omission that can partly be explained by the difficulties surrounding the family archive, the full story of which is told for the first time in Chapters 7 and 8. In fact, there is a great deal of surviving biographical information about the Conways, and an increasing need to account for their role in early modern literary culture. The chapters presented in Part I of John Donne and the Conway Papers show in full the family’s extensive political and cultural activities between around 1550 and 1650. They stand as independent testament to the Conways’ place in seventeenth-century England and Europe, but they also map out the family, friendship, and information-sharing networks that underpin the circulation of literary manuscripts by Donne and Jonson, as explored in Part II.
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