Title: The tower and the dream
Description: Bess of Hardwick, also known as Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527-1608), was the fourth daughter of a relatively minor gentry family who rose to the highest levels of English nobility through four advantageous marriages to become one of the richest women in English history.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Nobility, Queens, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, general, Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Scotland, fiction
Places: Great Britain, Scotland
People: Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot Shrewsbury Countess of (1520-1608), Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
Time periods: Elizabeth, 1558-1603, Mary Stuart, 1542-1567