Bess of Hardwick First Lady of Chatsworth

Bess of Hardwick First Lady of Chatsworth

From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history. Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not …

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