Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire - Softcover

Foreman, Amanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375502947 ISBN 13: 9780375502941

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2000

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Book by Foreman Amanda

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Provides a dramatic portrait of the colorful life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer, her roles as a society and political hostess, and her disastrous and profligate private life. 20,000 first printing.

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f Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its   undisputed leader. Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774, at the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats, the Duke of Devonshire. Launched into a world of wealth and power, she quickly became the queen of fashionable society, adored by the Prince of Wales, a dear friend of Marie-Antoinette, and leader of the most important salon of her time. Not content with the role of society hostess, she used her connections to enter politics, eventually becoming more influential than most of the men who held office.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375502947
• ISBN 13: 9780375502941
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 454