My just desire: the life of Bess Ralegh, wife to Sir Walter

Introduction : "Wantonness and wit" : the court of the Virgin Queen, October 1591

"My one and only daughter" : growing up under Elizabeth

"True within ourselves" : Bess and Sir Walter

"Him that 1 am" : building a life at Sherborne

"A most dangerous woman" : the return to power

"My dead heart" : the traitor's wife

"Of liberty deprived" : the Tower years

"God in mercy look on us" : journey's end

"Generosa virago" : creating the future.