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Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworthby Mary S. LovellISBN 0349115893 (0-349-11589-3)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth'Book summary:Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, wedded at 16 and still a virgin. At 19 she married a man more than twice her age, Sir William Cavendish, a senior auditor in King Henry VIII's Court of Augmentations. Responsible for seizing church properties for the crown during the Dissolution, Cavendish enriched himself in the process. During the reign of King Edward VI, Cavendish was the Treasurer to the boy king and sisters and he and Bess moved in the highest levels of society. They had a London home and built Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. After Cavendish's death her third husband was poisoned by his brother. Bess' 4th marriage to the patrician George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl Marshall of England, made Bess one of the most important women at court. Her shrewd business acumen was a byword and she was said to have 'a masculine understanding', in that age when women had little education and few legal rights. The Earl's death made her arguably the wealthiest and therefore - next to the Queen - the most powerful woman in the country [via]
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Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builderby Mary S. LovellISBN 039306221X (0-393-06221-X)
Hardcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder'Book summary: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 have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history.
In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more capricious and bloody, only to be followed by the indomitable and ruthless Gloriana, Elizabeth I. It could not have been more hazardous a period for an ambitious woman; by the time Bess's first child was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded.
Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on the American side, Katharine Hepburn. [via]More editions of Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder:
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Familyby Mary S. LovellISBN 0349115052 (0-349-11505-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burtonby Mary S. LovellISBN 0349110166 (0-349-11016-6)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton'Book summary:More than a century after their deaths, Richard and Isabel Burton are legend. Sir Richard Burton was a prolific writer, an insatiable explorer, a linguist, and a translator who pursued controversy and risk as surely as adventure. In 1853, disguised as an Afghani doctor, he became one of the first Europeans to enter the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He later led an expedition to discover the source of the Nile--whether he got there first was later protractedly disputed. He spoke dozens of languages and translated the erotic works The Arabian Nights, The Kama Sutra, and The Perfumed Garden into English, making him fall afoul of the National Vigilance Society and the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Isabel, for her part, defied her upper-crust family to marry Richard and lead the "wild, roving, vagabond life" she had dreamed of as a stifled young lady. She was her husband's collaborator, editor, and most vehement advocate. She defended his oft-besmirched reputation, promoted his writing, successfully campaigned to make him knighted--even arranged a dinner with the queen. After Richard's death, Isabel came under fire for burning his papers, including the Kama Sutra translation. This double biography by Mary S. Lovell (biographer, too, of Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, and Jane Digby) attempts to dispel many of the myths that have grown up around the pair of famous Victorians. She defends Isabel's burning her husband's papers as an act designed to protect his reputation and privacy. Lovell points out that even after their being burned, more of Richard's papers remained than were left by many of his contemporaries. And she cites them as primary source material for the book. Lovell also strenuously contradicts the long-held belief that Richard was gay--his interest in and writings about male sexuality, she believes, were borne purely of anthropological research. The Burtons, she assures readers, had an ideal marriage in every way, but she offers little supporting material to prove her claim. Lovell's views seem sometimes to be colored by her adoration for her subjects. But the obvious breadth of her research and her narrative skill make Rage to Live one of the more distinguished biographies of late. [via]
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- A Rage To Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton: ISBN 0393320391 (0-393-32039-1)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. - A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton: ISBN 0316643858 (0-316-64385-8)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited - A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton: ISBN 0393046729 (0-393-04672-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton: ISBN 0349110166 (0-349-11016-6)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- A Rage To Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton: ISBN 0393320391 (0-393-32039-1)
Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digbyby Mary S. LovellISBN 0393038955 (0-393-03895-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Familyby Mary S. LovellISBN 0393324141 (0-393-32414-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family'Book summary:This is the Story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy, the eldest, was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana, married to the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and imprisoned without trial through most of World War II, was the most hated woman in England; Unity Valkyrie Mitford, born in the mining town of Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler, whom she met on at least 140 occasions. When war was declared between England and Germany, she shot herself in the head.
The Mitfords had style, presence, and were extremely gifted: four would go on to write best-selling books. Above all, they were funny -- hilariously and often mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhanded, and generous book, Mary Lovell captures the vitality and extraordinary drama of a family that took the twentieth century by the throat and became, in some respects, its victims. [via]
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The Sound of Wingsby Mary S. LovellISBN 0099708701 (0-09-970870-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhartby Mary S. LovellISBN 0312034318 (0-312-03431-8)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart'Book summary:This definitive biography of aviation legend Amelia Earhart delivers a brilliantly researched report on Earhart's life--from her tomboy childhood and early fascination with flying, her peculiar business/matrimonial realtionship with publisher G.P. Putnam to her consuming quest for avaiation fame. [via]
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Splendid Outcast: The African Storiesby Beryl Markham, Mary S. LovellISBN 0091726042 (0-09-172604-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markhamby Mary S. LovellISBN 0091705800 (0-09-170580-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight Till Morning'Book summary:A bestseller across America as well as the number one book in England in hardcover, this is the story of one of this century's most remarkable women. "A well-wrought, brilliantly researched portrait."--The New York Times Book Review. Black-and-white photos. The basis for a miniseries airing this fall. [via]
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- Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham: ISBN 0312018959 (0-312-01895-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham: ISBN 0312925158 (0-312-92515-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press - Straight on till Morning: ISBN 0099536005 (0-09-953600-5)
Hardcover, Random House - Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham: ISBN 0312010966 (0-312-01096-6)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Straight Till Morning: ISBN 0091705800 (0-09-170580-0)
Hardcover, Random House
- Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham: ISBN 0312018959 (0-312-01895-9)
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