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Random House
August 2008
On Sale: August 19, 2008
512 pages
ISBN: 0812979699
EAN: 9780812979695
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Non-Fiction Biography | Historical
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 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by
marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of
England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She
became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the
most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana’s
public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling
addiction, drinking, drug-taking, and rampant love affairs
with the leading politicians of the day. With penetrating
insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose
struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and
flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the
affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly
contemporary figure.
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