Bess of Hardwick: An Elizabethan Tycoon - Wyn Derbyshire - Bog

Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable people who lived in England in the late Tudor period. Born a daughter of a humble Midlands family, and living at a time when the laws and customs of the land made it difficult for women to exercise any real form of economic or social independence, she succeeded in acquiring a personal fortune.