Devices and desires : Bess of Hardwick and the building of Elizabethan England
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- ISBN: 9780062302991
- ISBN: 006230299X
- ISBN: 9780062303011 (e-book)
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xxx, 354 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Originally published as Devices & Desires in Great Britain in 2018 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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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