"Bess of Hardwick." . . "Hardwick Hall." . . . . . . . "Of household stuff" . . . . "Inventories" . . . . "Of houshold stuff : the 1601 inventories of Bess of Hardwick" . . "Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, more famously known as Bess of Hardwick, became one of the most influential women of the Elizabethan age. This book presents a record of the contents of the three houses she lived in." . . . . . . . . .