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<p>"The best account yet available of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman."—Sunday Times [London]<br></p> From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history. Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthies
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- Author
- Lovell, Mary S.
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393075793
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Women
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (9 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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