Suzannah Lipscomb

Tudor England’s other Bess

She built some of the most magnificent houses of the age, and became a byword for wit, ambition and extravagance

issue 24 November 2018

  • Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

    Kate Hubbard

    Chatto, pp. 354

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