The Hardwick Love Story

By Janet Roberts

Bess of Hardwick's grand daughter was very gifted. She wanted to use her intelligence to study and learn, probably to marry and raise a family.
Her grandmother wanted her to be Queen of England.
The conflict had the most tragic consequences and ruined Arbella's life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Janet Roberts
• Release date: Jan 27, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466131590

Janet Roberts

In Janet Roberts' books, you’ll often find someone spending a bit of time by a lake, river or ocean somewhere in the world. Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, on the Great Lakes, she loves an endless view of water for as far as the eye can see. Janet graduated from Temple University with a degree in journalism. After working as a journalist and later as a paralegal, she obtained her masters in communications from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Janet began writing fiction and poetry as a child and never let go of her dream of publishing a novel.  Although her current job as a security awareness program lead has meant moving to a variety of cities, she often returns to her Western Pennsylvania roots in her writing.  

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The

Hardwick

Love Story

Janet Roberts

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Arbella - living in Derbyshire

Arbella Elizabeth was Bess of Hardwick's first grandchild, but controversy surrounded her from the moment of her birth.

The scheming Bess, renown in England for her lavish buildings, wanted her family famous for at least a thousand years, so she was very careful about arranging all her children's' weddings. Her own marriage to William Cavendish had produced three sons, Henry, William and Charles and five daughters, Frances, Mary and Elizabeth, with Temperance and Lucrece dying young.

By 1574 Elizabeth was still unmarried so when Bess heard that the Countess of Lennox and her son were travelling to Scotland, she wrote inviting her to break her long journey at nearby