Bess of Hardwick (eBook, ePUB)

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Redaktion: Hopkins, Lisa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought) she was the richest woman in England outside the royal family, had risen to the rank of countess and seen two of her daughters do the same and had built one of the major 'prodigy houses' of the period. While married to her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, she had been jailer to Mary, Queen of Scots, and her granddaughter by her second marriage, Lady Arbella Stuart, was of royal blood and might have succeeded to the throne of England. This wide-ranging collection brings out the full range of her activities and impact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101310
• Artikelnr.: 56521152

Autorenporträt

Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Lisa Hopkins 1. Bess of Hardwick, a life
Alan Bryson 2. Money, marriage and remembrance: telling stories from the Cavendish financial accounts
Alison Wiggins 3. Bess's use of language
Imogen Julia Marcus 4. Upper servants' letters and loyalties in the Shrewsbury
Stuart domestic politics of the 1580s
Felicity Lyn Maxwell 5. Hardwick Hall: building a woman's house
Sara L. French 6. Elizabeth Hardwick's material negotiations
Jessica L. Malay 7. Bess of Hardwick's gynocracy in textiles
Susan Frye 8. A difficult and volatile alliance: the Countess of Shrewsbury and the Lady Arbella Stuart
Sara Jayne Steen 9. Conclusion
Lisa Hopkins Selected bibliography Index