Ebook {Epub PDF} Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder by Mary S. Lovell

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Born into the minor nobility, Bess of Hardwick rose to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in England, second only to Queen Elizabeth I. Lovell (The Mitford Girls) presents Bess's life as a study in how education, connections, marriage and property management shaped the life of women in the 16th century. Bess served in noble. Ambitious Bess would try Elizabeth's patience with the secret marriage of her daughter to Margaret Lennox's younger son, producing the royal next-in-line Lady Arbella (see Sarah Gristwood's Arbella, ). Lovell has synthesized admirably a staggering amount of information here (in lineage alone), and she presents it with verve. Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on the American side, Katharine Hepburn. Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder Mary S. Lovell No preview.

Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder by Mary S. Lovell. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , X. Mary Lovell's biography charts every aspect of Bess's long life, including her time as minder of Mary, Queen of Scots for Elizabeth I and the building of Chatsworth, Hardwick and Oldcotes, which still stand as testimony of a remarkable Tudor figure. Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are.