The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde: Volume 40

by Elizabeth Butler

This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Ormonde, who, as Ireland's only duke and three times its lord lieutenant, was a figure of considerable importance in seventeenth-century Ireland. But far from being overshadowed by her powerful husband, Butler...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649590180
• ISBN13: 9781649590183
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"