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Devices and desires, Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England, Kate Hubbard

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Devices and desires, Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England, Kate Hubbard

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Devices and desires

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bibliography

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1038410006

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Kate Hubbard

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Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Hardwick Hall, 1590 -- Derbyshire beginnings -- Sir William Cavendish -- Acquisition -- "Every man almost is a builder" -- "My honest swete Chatesworth" -- "This devil's devices" -- Countess of Shrewsbury -- The Scots Queen -- A dubious honour -- "Close dealing" -- "Great turmoil doth two houses breed" -- "The old song" -- "Send me accres" -- "Civil wars" -- Mocking and mowing -- The old hall -- Smythson's Platt -- London, 1591 -- "More glass than wall" -- "Houshold stuff" -- "A scribbling melancholy" -- "It doth stick sore in her teeth" -- "Not over sumptuous" -- Afterword: Hardwick Post Bess

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Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England

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