As Wicked a Woman: Eleanor, Countess of Desmond, 1545-1636 - Hardcover

Chambers, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863271901 ISBN 13: 9780863271908

Verlag: Wolfhound Press, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

ELEANOR. Apart from the occasional or passing reference, historians have ignored or forgotten her. Now in a vigorous, moving biography, Anne Chambers writes about the amazing life and the ambitions of this truly extraordinary woman.A woman of courage and indomitable will, with an almost superhuman capacity to withstand suffering, loss and deprivation, Eleanor, Countess of Desmond was relentless in pursuit of her own and her husband's interests.Eleanor shared the Tudor and Elizabethan stages with great and colourful characters. Machiavellian as they at intrigue and negotiation and ever mindful of her central purpose, she outlived both opponents and supporters.Wife of the rebel 15th Earl of Desmond, she became to the armies pursuing them in the Munster hills an obsessive myth, 'object of their fear, hatred and lust; the she-devil. . . What self-respecting woman - and a Countess to boot - would willingly live like a wild animal in the woods and bogs?'

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Wolfhound Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0863271901
• ISBN 13: 9780863271908
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224