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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bess of Hardwick
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(Elizabeth Hardwick, 1527–1608) Spirited Elizabethan who by four judicious marriages (Robert Barlow c.1543, Sir William Cavendish 1547, Sir William St Loe 1559, the earl of Shrewsbury 1567) rose from the minor Derbyshire gentry to become one of the richest people in England. She spent her last years and much of her wealth in creating a spectacular new house near her childhood home, *Hardwick Hall.
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