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- ↑ Alison Wiggins, Bess of Hardwick’s Letters: Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture (Routledge, 2017), pp. 19-20.
- ↑ Pamela Kettle, Oldcotes: The Last Mansion Built by Bess of Hardwick (Merton Priory, 2000), pp. 8, 13, 20.
- ↑ Alison Wiggins, Bess of Hardwick's Letters: Language, Materiality and Early Modern Epistolary Culture (Routledge, 2017), p. 19.
- ↑ Pamela Kettle, Oldcotes: The Last Mansion Built by Bess of Hardwick (Merton Priory, 2000), pp. 13-22, 66-67.
- ↑ Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Writing Women in Jacobean England (Cambridge MA, 1993), p. 74.
- ↑ Emily Tennyson Bradley, Life of Lady Arabella Stuart, vol. 2 (London: Bentley, 1889), p. 121
- ↑ Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, 3 (London, 1791), 296.
- ↑ Pamela Kettle, Oldcotes: The Last Mansion Built by Bess of Hardwick (Merton Priory, 2000), pp. 38-42.
- ↑ Pamela Kettle, Oldcotes: The Last Mansion Built by Bess of Hardwick (Merton Priory, 2000), pp. 46-56.
- ↑ Pamela Kettle, Oldcotes: The Last Mansion Built by Bess of Hardwick (Merton Priory, 2000), pp. 79-81.