Bess of Hardwick
Subtitle: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9780316724821
Subjects: Biography: historical; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; General; Biography / Autobiography; History: World
Description: Bess Hardwick, born into the most brutal and turbulent period of England's history, the fifth of six daughters of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have the most auspicious start in life. Widowed for the first time at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history.