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Bess of Hardwick : new perspectives

Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- editor

2019

Overview

\"Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire but by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought) she was the richest woman in England outside the royal family, had risen to the rank of countess and seen two of her daughters do the same, and had built one of the major 'prodigy houses' of the period, Hardwick Hall. While married to her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, she had been jailer to Mary, Queen of Scots, and her granddaughter by her second marriage, Lady Arbella Stuart, was of royal blood and might have succeeded to the throne of England. This wide-ranging collection brings out the full range of her activities and impact\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Subject: Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of, 1527?-1608. / Countesses England Biography. / Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
• ISBN: 9781526101297, 1526101297

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DA358.S4 B47 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE