Portraits of Society: Popular Literature in the Seventeenth Century

Margaret Spufford examines popular fiction in 17th-century England.

Margaret Spufford | Published in History Today Volume 32 Issue 2 February 1982
The True Tale of Robin Hood, 1686.
The True Tale of Robin Hood, 1686.

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