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Alison Plowden.
Mistress of Hardwick.
Published London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1972 reprint (previously issued 1972).
ISBN 0563106646.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, London, Reading & Fakenham.
Size: 125x194x10mm.
Page count: text 120pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the covers on this copy are rather yellowed with age, some mild scuffs and creases, a little wear on the edges and corners; the spine is faded with a crease; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £2.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 163g.

How to order this book

This book grew out of a series of TV programmes which set out to tell the story of that formidable woman of property who became successively Mrs Robert Barlow, Lady Cavendish, Lady St. Loe, and Countess of Shrewsbury. The book gives an idea of like at Hardwick Hall four hundred years ago, behind the foreground of politics & conflicts in which Bess played a leading part.

Contents: Honest sweet Chatsworth; Dangerous alliance; My jewel Arbelle; Shrewsbury scandal; Insatiable dream; Cousin to King James; This costly countess; This unadvised young woman; Royal prisoner; When Hardwick Towers shall bow their head.

Illustrations: 8 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp, annotated
Index: yes

See also | Tudor Britain | Aristocracy | TV tie-ins |
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