by Amanda Foreman · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006550167
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«Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire» is the historical biography by Amanda Foreman, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most influential women of eighteenth-century England. The biography covers her political career, her extramarital affairs, her addiction to gambling and drugs, and her popularity, within the framework of the aristocracy of the time. Georgiana was a distant aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.
The work won the Whitbread Biography Award in 1998. The edition includes 32 black-and-white plates and 16 in color, plus an index.
For readers of historical biography and of the social and political history of eighteenth-century England.
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Amanda Lucy Foreman is a British-American biographer and historian. Her books include Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War, and the forthcoming The World Made by Women. She also wrote and starred in a four-part documentary regarding the role of women in society, entitled The Ascent of Woman. Foreman's column for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly 'Historically Speaking' ran for over ten years. She is also a CBS News royal contributor.
