Beschreibung:
Lesley Lawson is a researcher and writer specialising in Elizebethan poetry. This is her first book.
Lucy, Countess of Bedford was one of the richest, most fashionable and influential women in England at the time of Shakespeare. Married to the Earl of Bedford, the Queen's closest friend, cousin to Robert Sidney and patron of John Donne, she existed in a world of gossip, scandal and intrigue at the centre of a glittering world of celebrity. Her fascinating life has never been the subject of a book, until now.
This is the first biography of Lucy, Countess of Bedford, a fascinating and unexplored figure in Elizabethan London.
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