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Bess Of Hardwick

Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 074811226X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Bess Of Hardwick written by Mary S. Lovell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - next to Queen Elizabeth the most powerful woman in England Bess of Hardwick, born into the most brutal and turbulent period of England's history, did not have an 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 the country has ever seen. The Tudor age was a hazardous time for an ambitious woman: by the time Frances, Bess's first child, was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded. Plague regularly wiped out entire families, conspiracies and feuds were rife. But through all this Bess Hardwick bore eight children and built an empire of her own: the great houses of Chatsworth and Hardwick. 'The best account yet of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman' Sunday Times 'Lovell has excelled at bringing the Tudor age to exuberant life. A phenomenal story' Mail on Sunday 'Utterly absorbing... one of those biographies in which the reader really doesn't want the subject to die' Independent on Sunday

Bess of Hardwick

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526101297
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Bess of Hardwick written by Lisa Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born the daughter of a country squire, Bess of Hardwick made four marriages which brought her wealth and status. She built and furnished houses and founded a dynasty which included a granddaughter, Arbella Stuart, who had a claim to the thrones of both England and Scotland.

Bess of Hardwick’s Letters

Author : Alison Wiggins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317175123
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Bess of Hardwick’s Letters written by Alison Wiggins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which Bess put letters: they were vital to her engagement in the overlapping realms of politics, patronage, business, legal negotiation, news-gathering and domestic life. Much more than a case study of Bess's letters, the discussions of language, handwriting and materiality found here have fundamental implications for the way we approach and read Renaissance letters. Wiggins offers readings which show how Renaissance letters communicated meaning through the interweaving linguistic, palaeographic and material forms, according to socio-historical context and function. The study goes beyond the letters themselves and incorporates a range of historical sources to situate circumstances of production and reception, which include Account Books, inventories, needlework and textile art and architecture. The study is therefore essential reading for scholars in historical linguistics, historical pragmatics, palaeography and manuscript studies, material culture, English literature and social history.

Bess of Hardwick

Author : David N. Durant
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720610789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Bess of Hardwick written by David N. Durant and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977.

Devices and Desires

Author : Kate Hubbard
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062303015
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Devices and Desires written by Kate Hubbard and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 when she was 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 cour-tiers, she also collected numerous enemies. Her embittered fourth husband once called her a woman of “devices and desires,” while male historians of the nineteenth century 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 softhearted sort, much maligned and misunderstood. As Kate Hubbard reveals, the truth of this highly accomplished woman lies somewhere in between: ruthless and scheming, Bess was sentimental and affectionate as well. Hubbard draws on more than 230 of Bess’s letters, including correspondence with the queen and her councilors, fond (and furious) missives to her husbands and children, and notes sharing titillating court gossip. The result is a rich, compelling portrait of a true feminist icon centuries ahead of her time—a complex, formidable, and decidedly modern woman captured in full as never before.

Kundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders, Couples Therapy, and Personal Growth

Author : David Shannahoff-Khalsa
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393704750
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Kundalini Yoga Meditation: Techniques Specific for Psychiatric Disorders, Couples Therapy, and Personal Growth written by David Shannahoff-Khalsa and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bounty of techniques and teaches clinicians how to incorporate these effective methods into their own practices both for individuals and couples.

Venus in Winter

Author : Gillian Bagwell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101624558
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Venus in Winter written by Gillian Bagwell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The September Queen explores Tudor England with the tale of Bess of Hardwick—the formidable four-time widowed Tudor dynast who became one of the most powerful women in the history of England. On her twelfth birthday, Bess of Hardwick receives the news that she is to be a waiting gentlewoman in the household of Lady Zouche. Armed with nothing but her razor-sharp wit and fetching looks, Bess is terrified of leaving home. But as her family has neither the money nor the connections to find her a good husband, she must go to facilitate her rise in society. When Bess arrives at the glamorous court of King Henry VIII, she is thrust into a treacherous world of politics and intrigue, a world she must quickly learn to navigate. The gruesome fates of Henry’s wives convince Bess that marrying is a dangerous business. Even so, she finds the courage to wed not once, but four times. Bess outlives one husband, then another, securing her status as a woman of property. But it is when she is widowed a third time that she is left with a large fortune and even larger decisions—discovering that, for a woman of substance, the power and the possibilities are endless . . .

The Other Queen

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416549129
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Other Queen written by Philippa Gregory and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.

Elizabethan Treasures

Author : Santina M. Levey
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Elizabethan Treasures written by Santina M. Levey and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England, houses a world-famous collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century textiles. The fact that these exquisite pillow covers, wall hangings, bedcovers, carpets, and upholsteries, many decorated with superb embroidery, have survived in such good condition is little short of miraculous, and due in part to the formidable Countess of Shrewsbury, better known as Bess of Hardwick, who built the house in the 1590s. In her will, Bess instructed her heirs to 'have speciall care and regard to p'serve the same from all manner of wett, mothe and other hurte or spoyle thereof'.

Of Household Stuff

Author : Santina M. Levey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Household Stuff written by Santina M. Levey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, more famously known as Bess of Hardwick, became one of the most influential women of the Elizabethan age. This book presents a record of the contents of the three houses she lived in.

Hardwick Hall

Author : David Adshead
Publisher : Association of Human Rights Institutes series
ISBN 13 : 9780300218909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Hardwick Hall written by David Adshead and published by Association of Human Rights Institutes series. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still intact. This splendid publication is the definitive source of scholarship on the remarkably well-preserved exemplar of late-Elizabethan style. Composed of extensive research and newly commissioned photography, this beautifully illustrated book traces the history of the house and its inhabitants through the centuries, showcasing a remarkable collection of portraiture, tapestries, furniture, and gardens, and providing readers with a genuine sense of the house's environment. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Arbella

Author : Sarah Gristwood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618341337
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Arbella written by Sarah Gristwood and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on letters written by England's "Lost Queen," this portrait describes the niece to Mary Queen of Scots and cousin to Elizabeth I who became a pawn in the power struggles of her age and tried unsuccessfully to flee her fate, dying a tragic death in the tower of London.

Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age

Author : Michael Fleming
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783274212
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Music and Instruments of the Elizabethan Age written by Michael Fleming and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the rare depictions of musical instruments and musical sources found on the Eglantine Table to understand the musical life of the Elizabethan age and its connection to aspects of culture now treated as separate disciplines ofhistorical study.

Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron

Author : William Brockedon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finden's Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron written by William Brockedon and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Woman of Passion

Author : Virginia Henley
Publisher : Island Books
ISBN 13 : 0307568555
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book A Woman of Passion written by Virginia Henley and published by Island Books. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling feat of romantic fiction that blends rich historical detail with sumptuous romance to sweep us into glittering, intrigue-riddled Elizabethan England, from New York Times bestselling author Virginia Henley Young Bess Hardwick knew that the only way to escape a commoner's life was to serve in a noble family and marry well. So the headstrong beauty set out for London and the Tudor court, the arena for the richest, most ambitious men, none more powerful than the four men who would claim her. None more dangerous than Princess Elizabeth, who made Bess friend, confidante, then lady-in-waiting in her own glittering court... Dangerously seductive, William Cavendish, the king's dashing financial adviser, vowed to have Bess at any cost. Frail, adoring Robert Barlow offered a marriage she couldn't refuse. Newly crowned Queen Elizabeth bade her marry courtly Sir William St. Loe. But reckless passion drove Bess into the arms of George Talbot, the devastating Earl of Shrewsbury, whose wicked daring ignited in Bess the passion of a lifetime—even as it sparked the jealous interest of the most perilous ally of all: the Virgin Queen....

Renaissance Culture and the Everyday

Author : Patricia Fumerton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812216636
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Culture and the Everyday written by Patricia Fumerton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the walls of their own homes with graffiti. Items and activities as familiar as mirrors, books, horses, everyday speech, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food preparation look decidedly less familiar when seen through the eyes of Renaissance men and women. In Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, such scholars as Judith Brown, Frances Dolan, Richard Helgerson, Debora Shuger, Don Wayne, and Stephanie Jed illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in just such common matters of everyday life during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent. Organized around the categories of materiality, women, and transgression—and constantly crossing these categories—the book promotes and challenges readers' thinking of the everyday. While not ignoring the aristocratic, it foregrounds the common person, the marginal, and the domestic even as it presents the unusual details of their existence. What results is an expansive, variegated, and sometimes even contradictory vision in which the strange becomes not alien but a defining mark of everyday life.

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Author : Maud Stepney Rawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle written by Maud Stepney Rawson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: