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Devices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England / Kate Hubbard.
"Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business, Bess of Hardwick rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most respected and feared Countesses in Elizabethan England—an entrepreneur who built a family fortune, created glorious houses—the last and greatest built as a widow in her 70s—and was deeply involved in matters of the court, including the custody of Mary Queen of Scots. While Bess cultivated many influential courtiers, she also collected numerous enemies. Her embittered fourth husband once called her a woman of “devices and desires,” while nineteenth-century male historians portrayed her as a monster—”a woman of masculine understanding and conduct, proud, furious, selfish and unfeeling.” In the twenty-first century she has been neutered by female historians who recast her as a soft-hearted sort, much maligned, and misunderstood."-- Publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780062302991 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xxx, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published as Devices & Desires in Great Britain in 2018 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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