Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

by Kate Hubbard

Book Overview

"A dynamic portrait. . . . Bess of Hardwick emerges from Devices and Desires as a fascinating and influential woman well deserving of many historians' attention." -- BBC History

The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick--next to Queen Elizabeth I, the richest and most powerful woman in sixteenth-century England.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006230299X
• ISBN13: 9780062302991
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"