Editing Bess of Hardwick (section)

==Fiction==
===Television===
* A 10-part BBC series about Bess titled ''Mistress of Hardwick'' was broadcast in 1972, with [[Hilary Mason]] in the title role. The script was written by [[Alison Plowden]], and the series won the Writers' Guild Award for the best educational television series. Most of the episodes are now lost. Plowden wrote a tie-in book, also called ''Mistress of Hardwick'', which was published by the BBC in April 1972.

===Film===
* She is portrayed by [[Gemma Chan]] in the 2018 movie ''[[Mary Queen of Scots (2018 film)|Mary Queen of Scots]]''.

===Literature===
* Bess is the main character in ''Venus in Winter'' by Gillian Bagwell (2 July 2013).
* Bess of Hardwick is a character in ''[[The Other Queen]]'' by [[Philippa Gregory]].
* Bess is the title character of ''A Woman of Passion'' by [[Virginia Henley]].
* She also features prominently in the book ''The Captive Queen of Scots'' by [[Jean Plaidy]].
* She is the title character in the novel ''The Queenmaker'' by [[Maureen Peters (novelist)|Maureen Peters]].
* She appears in ''[[The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare]]'' by [[Arliss Ryan]].
* She is the main character in the [[Jan Westcott]] historical/[[biography in literature|biographical fiction]] novel ''[[The Tower and The Dream]]''.
* In [[Dorothy Sayers]]'s novel ''[[Gaudy Night]]'', Bess of Hardwick is referred to as the mother of Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury, the patroness of the fictitious Shrewsbury College at Oxford.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcLTJYnKDdEC&q=bess+of+hardwick+gaudy+night&pg=PT69|title=''Gaudy Night''|last=Sayers|first=Dorothy|date=2012|publisher=Open Road Media|pages=68–69|isbn=9781453258958|access-date=2014-10-14}}</ref>
* Bess of Hardwick is the narrator of ''Petticoat King'', a 1929 novel by Miriam Michelson.
* Bess is a character in the short story "Antickes and Frets" by Susanna Clarke, in her 2006 collection ''[[The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories]]''.

===Music===
* The song "Hardwick's Lofty Towers" by [[Sarah McQuaid]] is from the perspective of Bess. It appears on her 2012 album ''The Plum Tree and the Rose.''