Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle
by Maud Stepney Rawson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Rawson, Maud Stepney
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Women landowners -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 65787
- Release Date
- July 7, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BESS OF HARDWICK AND HER CIRCLE
- 2.TO MY HUSBAND
- 3.AUTHOR’S NOTE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I THE RED-HAIRED GIRL
- 6.CHAPTER II THE MISTRESS BUILDER
- 7.CHAPTER III “A GREAT GENTLEMAN”
- 8.CHAPTER IV HUBBUB
- 9.CHAPTER V MAKE-BELIEVE
- 10.CHAPTER VI PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT
- 11.CHAPTER VII FAMILY LETTERS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII A CERTAIN JOURNEY
- 13.CHAPTER IX LOVE AND THE WOODMAN
- 14.CHAPTER X AFTERMATH
- 15.CHAPTER XI VARIOUS OCCURRENCES
- 16.CHAPTER XII MY LORD LEICESTER’S CURE
- 17.CHAPTER XIII THE DIVIDED WAY
- 18.CHAPTER XIV “BRUITS”
- 19.CHAPTER XV RUTH AND JOYUSITIE
- 20.CHAPTER XVI VOLTE FACE
- 21.CHAPTER XVII THE COIL THICKENS — Gilbert and Mary Talbott to the Countess of Shrewsbury (1583).
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII “FACE TO FACE”
- 23.CHAPTER XIX HAMMER AND TONGS — THE QUEEN’S ORDER. — Sir Henry Lee to Lord Talbot. — The Earl of Shrewsbury to Sir Henry Lee.
- 24.CHAPTER XX FADING GLORIES — The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry to the Earl of Shrewsbury.
- 25.CHAPTER XXI HEIR AND DOWAGER — The Countess of Shrewsbury to Lord Burghley: representing her care of the Lady Arabella. [86]
- 26.CHAPTER XXII ARABELLA DANCES INTO COURT
- 27.CHAPTER XXIII MY LADY’S MANSIONS
- 28.INDEX
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