Bess of Hardwick: Mary Lovell's reassessment of a powerful Tudor woman

A builder of great country houses including Chatsworth and Hardwick House, wife to four men, each one richer than the last, jailor of Mary Queen of Scots and shrewd businesswoman, Bess of Hardwick was the wealthiest and most powerful woman of the Tudor age, apart from Queen Elizabeth herself, and has been portrayed since Elizabethan times as a hard and scheming woman. The biographer Mary Lovell uncovers a new aspect of Bess's life and character -- as a brave, accomplished and exceptional woman. Mary Lovell's book is "Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth".