Writing a Book for Kids Part 2

I'm still doing preliminary research on Queen Elizabeth for Kids -- this week on Bess of Hardwick, a healthy -- and therefore wealthy--English noblewoman who managed to birth seven children and outlive four husbands. Along the way, she acquired massive amounts of property and several large estates, including her own home in Derbyshire, Hardwick Hall. Bess's last husband was the caretaker of Mary Queen of Scots, so Bess knew her quite well -- too well, some of Elizabeth's courtiers feared!

I find Bess especially interesting because she was an accomplished needlewoman and hired male embroiderers to stitch incredibly detailed, expensive tapestries that hung in her homes. Some of these were so extraordinary they became part of a marital uproar when he husband split from her and wanted an accounting of his v. her "stuff." I doubt that anyone today gets into a marital spat over needlepoint!