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13 de dic. de 2021 · Elizabeth Hardwick (1520–1608), Countess of Shrewsbury, 'Bess of Hardwick'. Hans Eworth (c.1520–after 1578) (follower of) National Trust, Hardwick Hall. She was in fact married and widowed four times and had a reputation for being a powerful patron and businesswoman. She was responsible for the acquisition and building of Chatsworth House ...
En 1549 la parcela fue adquirida por un tesorero de Enrique VIII, William Cavendish, quien siguió los consejos de su esposa Bess de Hardwick para mudarse aquí desde su residencia en Suffolk. Iniciaron en 1553 la construcción de una nueva casa a orillas del río Derwent, y aunque Cavendish falleció cuatro años después, su viuda prosiguió las obras y las terminó en la década siguiente.
Bess of Hardwick's letters, which number almost 250 items of correspondence, bring to life her extraordinary story and allow us to eavesdrop on her world. Her letters allow us to reposition Bess as a complex woman of her times, immersed in the literacy and textual practices of everyday life, as her correspondence extends from servants, friends and family, to queens and officers of state.
Localización. Hardwick Hall está situado en la cima de una colina entre Chesterfield y Mansfield, con vistas al campo de Derbyshire.La casa fue diseñada por Robert Smythson a finales del siglo XVI y construida por su propietaria Bess de Hardwick, Condesa de Shrewsbury y antepasada de los Duques de Devonshire, y permaneció siendo propiedad de esa familia hasta que fue entregada al ...
26 de ago. de 2022 · Noblewoman; wife of 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 'Bess of Hardwick' was one of the wealthiest people in late Elizabethan England, and an important patron of architecture. She acquired her wealth through a succession of four progressively more profitable marriages, and through her own business acumen. She is remembered mainly for the house she had built at Hardwick, to a plan by the great Elizabethan ...
Elizabeth Hardwick, o Hardwicke, contessa di Shrewsbury, conosciuta con il nome di Bess di Hardwick (1527 – 13 febbraio 1608), è stata una nobildonna britannica figlia di John Hardwick. Fu una figura importante della società elisabettiana inglese del XVI secolo: con una serie di matrimoni ben fatti, salì ai più alti livelli della nobiltà inglese e divenne enormemente ricca.
19 de nov. de 2020 · Portrait of Elizabeth I at Hardwick Hall, from the workshop of Nicholas Hilliard, c.1599 (Image Credit: Public Domain) In 1574, Bess pushed her dynastic ambitions too far, seriously angering the queen. She had secretly secured the marriage of her second daughter Elizabeth to Charles Stuart, a nephew to Henry VIII.
