Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard – Review

Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard

Publication: February 26th, 2019 by Harper

ISBN-10: 006230299X
ISBN-13: 978-0062302991
Genre: History – Nonfiction

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.

Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business, Bess of Hardwick rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most respected and feared Countesses in Elizabethan England—an entrepreneur who built a family fortune, created glorious houses—the last and greatest built as a widow in the 70s—and was deeply involved in matters of the court, including the custody of Mary Queen of Scots.

Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard – Review

Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard

Expected publication: February 26th, 2019 by Harper

ISBN-10: 006230299X
ISBN-13: 978-0062302991
Genre: History – Nonfiction

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.

Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business, Bess of Hardwick rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most respected and feared Countesses in Elizabethan England—an entrepreneur who built a family fortune, created glorious houses—the last and greatest built as a widow in the 70s—and was deeply involved in matters of the court, including the custody of Mary Queen of Scots.