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The letters of the indomitable Elizabethan matriarch and dynast Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c.1527-1608, known as ‘Bess of Hardwick’), provide an unparalleled historical resource. Her letters number almost 250 items of correspondence (over 70 of which are from Elizabeth Talbot, mainly written in her own hand) include over 60 ...
Bess of Hardwick, a life Download; XML; Money, marriage and remembrance:: telling stories from the Cavendish financial accounts Download; XML; Bess’s use of language Download; XML; Upper servants’ letters and loyalties in the Shrewsbury–Stuart domestic politics of the 1580s Download; XML; Hardwick Hall:: building a woman’s house ...
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.
Bess was born into a comfortable, but not grand, farmhouse called Hardwick Hall (1), just on the Derbyshire side of the county border with Nottingham. Although her father died when she was a child, leaving a minor heir, Bess’ mother managed to retain the house for the younger siblings to live in. Mrs Hardwick remarried and had three more ...
Bess was the wealthiest woman in Tudor England, and her life testifies to the heights a lady could achieve with the help of a little cunning…and about four rich, dead husbands. Bow down to these scandalous facts about Bess of Hardwick, the Tudor family’s secret-keeper. 1. She Was Born In A Time Of Turmoil.
Chapter 1: Youth & First Marriage. Elizabeth, or Bess, as she is popularly known, was born during the early 1520s to John Hardwick, a small landowner of Hardwick, Derbyshire and Elizabeth Leake. Her actual birthdate is unknown – from as early as 1521 to as late as 1527 have been postulated. The Hardwicks had been established at Hardwick Hall ...
Y pese a sus fechas de construcción, la obra tiene mucho de gótica, si bien se ha sabido conjugar con las comodidades de una sociedad más moderna que la del Medievo. El palacete fue promovido por Bess de Hardwick, Condesa de Shrewsbury (1527 – 1608), la cual usó prácticamente toda su riqueza para levantar esta mansión de Hardwick Hall.
