Devices and Desires by Kate Hubbard
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A big, bouncily-written biography of Bess, the Countess of Shrewsbury—a fascinating figure from the era.
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Elizabeth's Rival by Nicola Tallis
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This is the colorful material insanely prolific historical novelist Victoria Holt used for one of her best novels, 1979's My Enemy, the Queen.
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