Watching it, I kept Googling people and things to read up on them, to see if the movie was accurate. Very political, very sexual not in a broad sense but with underlying tones. 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. This Whitbread Prize-winning biography has all that and more; if it were fiction it would be a best seller. Georgiana has been dead for over years, but the author brings her to life. The Duke of Devonshire was unimpressed by his wife's legendary charms, preferring instead those of her closest friend, a woman with whom Georgiana herself was rumored to be on intimate terms. Also by Amanda Foreman. 
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Truly an amazing historical figure and in however she may have shamed her relatives and counterparts in the 's, she would be a woman of great importance and admiration in today's society when dealing with politics and fashion. Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all- night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the Britisharistocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon.
Amanda Eyre Ward doesn't think you should beat yourself up too much. Nov 19, P-eggy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Inat the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats, the Duke of Amahda.
For those of us who love to read, hearing about an exciting movie adaptation makes us want to read the book.
Georgiana may not have been a great genius, but duchezs was reasonably intelligent. And she had all-consuming love for Elizabeth Foster, who became her husband's mistress as well, and who was apparently such a fake hoe that everyone but the Duke and Duchess could see through her and struggled to befriend her.
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Retrieved from " https: He was as unlike his father as a son could be - he fought slavery, rebuilt the houses and villages of the poor on his lands, and took a great interest in fruit production: The wedding took place at Wimbledon Parish Church.
All the inhibitions about whether she was beautiful enough or whether she was up to the job left her.
The duchess played a key role in formulating, with Thomas Beddoesthe idea of establishing the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol. I'd rate it as 5 stars, if only something happened when I click on the stars!
To her eldest, she wrote, "Your letter dated the 1st of Nov was delightful to me tho' it dsvonshire me very melancholy my Dearest Child. Worth noting that, in my opinion, the book is a polar opposite to the film, which I thought to be mindless, mildly duchese fluff, when I watched it a few years ago.
At the same time, I had to keep readers turning pages. This is a well-written history, but it failed to really capture my attention. The Georgians were really just like us, but dressier. Her health continued to decline well into her forties, [6] and her addiction to gambling continued. Many obscene cartoons show satirists, including the famous Thomas Rowlandson, shamelessly caricaturing her sexual reputation: It takes a lot for me to quit a book halfway through, especially a biography my favorite genre in non-fiction that was made into a movie.
Refresh and zmanda again. I predict a great future for Amanda Foreman.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire - Wikipedia
What I as a modern person found profoundly ironic was that these were the limousine liberals of their day. Very political, very sexual not in a broad sense but with underlying tones. She would let the bankers set up in her drawing room in exchange for a percentage of the profits. In 's the population of Great Britain was approx. In any case, I highly recommend this book if you're interested in aristocracy, the movie The Duchess, the 18th century, or women doing pretty cool things. Her life, already a soapopera descends even further into low melodrama.
See 2 questions about Georgiana…. It's heavy politically with so much information, but I didn't skip a single sentence!
As a teenager, Georgiana agreed to marry the Duke of Devonshire to please her parents, and when she realized there would be no fairy-tale ending for her, she threw all of herself into four things: Until Braudel and his French quantifiers started looking at cemetery stones and baptismal records and counting up demographics, no one paid much attention to what the f The separate spheres view of life in the 18th century in particular was probably necessary in order to shift perceptions of what was important to dig out of attics and archives and study.
So she told endless lies, making light of her debts to both her friends and her bankers, and even borrowing money from the Prince of Wales. The duchess was an intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of Published January 16th by Modern Library first published
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