Beowulf

In this attractively illustrated and scholarly biography, Dr. Spence critically appraises her life and outlook: her childhood days in the royal court (she witnessed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I); her close association with the leading political, artistic and literary figures of the time after her marriage to Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset; her tempestuous marriage with her second husband, Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; and her struggle in later life to win the baronial titles and estates in the north of England of her famous father, George Clifford, Queen Elizabeth's champion.