Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

ISBN: 9780375753831, 0375753834

Год издания: 2001

Язык: Английский

Paperback | 520 Pages

Жанры:  Современная зарубежная литература, Историческая проза

Теги:  Герцогиня, Экранизировано, Муж и жена, Люди и судьбы, Англия, Дети, Любовь, Зарубежная художественная литература, 18 векВсе теги

А book first published in 1998 as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Amanda Foreman's biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

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.

Set in the late eighteenth century, The Duchess is based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. While her beauty and fashion made her famous, extravagance and gambling made her infamous. She is married to the cold and much older William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire. Despite the Duke's blatant infidelities, Georgiana becomes a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator, and darling of the common people. Reeling from her husband's affair with her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, Georgiana takes on her own lover, the future prime minister Earl Grey, with whom she gives birth to a child in secret, Eliza Courtney.

2008 - The Duchess (Saul Dibb; United Kingdom)