Novels with seventeenth-century settings outside Europe and North America (Africa, Asia, Australia and the Middle East) will be grouped in separate pages, by continent, when posted. The seventeenth century offers a variety of stirring historical settings, including the Civil Wars in England between the Royalist supporters of King Charles I and the Puritan Parliamentarians the Thirty Years War that engulfed Germany and its neighbors the migration from the Old World to the American Colonies and Canada the last of the witch persecutions, especially the hysteria in the Puritan colony of Salem and major advances in science led by mathematicians like Kepler and alchemists like Isaac Newton.įor the migration-rich seventeenth century, it is difficult to classify novels set partly in North America and partly in Europe by setting, so all novels set in North America appear in either the British Isles or the Continental Europe categories, depending on where the immigrant characters in a stand-alone novel or series of novels primarily came from. Mysteries: 17th Century European Continent and North America Mysteries: 17th Century Britain and North AmericaĬontinental Europe and North America in the 17th Century The British Isles and North America in the 17th Century My grandmother loved the place, and tried to persuade my grandfather to stay there, but for various reasons which have never been quite clear, he preferred to go back to Aldeburgh when the war ended.For news on the latest additions to this website, see the blog.
The school magazines at the time are full of stories and photographs. There were peacocks and formal gardens, the boys fished out of the dormitory windows, and the house was reputed to be haunted. For the next four years, the school inhabited Rushbrooke, and my mother's earliest memories were of dark panelling and long corridors. At the time of the move my grandmother was heavily pregnant with her youngest child, my mother, and stayed behind in Aldeburgh until the birth. It had been modernised and had heating and up-to-date plumbing. It was a wonderful red brick Elizabethan mansion, large enough to house everyone, with land enough for playing fields, and surrounded by a moat. Accordingly, he rented Rushbrooke Hall, near Bury St. My grandfather, Maurice Wilkinson, was the headmaster of a boys' school in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and at the onset of the First World War, decided that it would be a good idea to move his staff and pupils from their seafront location to a safer place inland.
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