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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

By (author) Amanda Foreman
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperCollins
Published: 1st Jun 1999
Dimensions: w 129mm h 198mm d 32mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN-10: 0006550169
ISBN-13: 9780006550167
Barcode No: 9780006550167
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Synopsis
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people. This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour and great wealth - always on the edge of being squandered by the excesses and scandals of individuals.

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'Mesmerizing'
Antonia Fraser, Literary Review


'Well-written, extensively researched and highly readable... Gripping'
Stella Tillyard, Mail on Sunday


'An outstanding debut by a young biographer fully in control of her sources, and with an easy and elegant writing style'
Roy Strong, Sunday Times