Name: The Duchess (Text Only)
ISBN: 9780007372683

Amanda Foreman

A tale of decadence and excess, great houses and wild parties, love and sexual intrigue, this biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, casts an astonishing new light on the nobility of eighteenth-century England.

The Duchess (Text Only)

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, like her descendant, Diana, Princess fo Wales, was publicly adored but personally troubled. From her complex mňage ̉trois with her husband and best friend to her vast gambling debts; from her adoration of her children to her passionate but doomed love for Earl Grey, she was a fascinating, contradictory woman whose story still resonates today.

The Duchess (Text Only)

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