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4.0 out of 5 stars
A shrewd-- or shrewish?-- Countess of Shrewsbury,
By PMcC-DC (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bess of Hardwick 1527-1608: A Material Girl (Short Lives) (Paperback)
This might seem like too brief a book on Bess of Hardwick, a fascinating Elizabethan who outlived four husbands and built some of England's greatest houses. But this book captures the essentials with admirable clarify and doesn't get bogged down in debates about Bess's personality. Was she a long-suffering wife to her last husband, or insanely jealous of his relationship with his captive, Mary Queen of Scots? Was she a shrewd businesswoman or a business-like shrew? The surviving evidence may not resolve these questions, and unlike most writers, Kate Hubbard manages to give us the facts without feeling she has to excuse or condemn Bess.
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Bess of Hardwick 1527-1608: A Material Girl (Short Lives) by Kate Hubbard (Paperback - May 2001)
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