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Bess of Hardwick
(redirected from Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury)

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Bess of Hardwick: see Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, countess of , 1520–1608, English noblewoman, known as Bess of Hardwick. At the age of 12 she married Robert Barlow, who died shortly afterward.
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Covering as much interior surface as the famous windows by Smythson--by which the house is knownthrough its jingle, "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall"--the embroideries and other cloth hangings made by Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, her women, and her professional male embroiderers, are often of militant female virtues as well as more passive kinds.
Elizabeth's Embroidery by QUILLIGAN, MAUREEN / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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