by Amanda Foreman · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007285754
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«The Duchess: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire» is Amanda Foreman's biography published by Harper Perennial in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was an eighteenth-century English aristocrat adored by the people: influential in politics, a compulsive gambler, addicted to laudanum, and involved in a ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend. An ancestor of Princess Diana and lover of Earl Grey, she embodied the excesses of her era.
This work won the Whitbread Prize for Biography in 1998, was originally published as «Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire», and this 2008 edition is tied to the film adaptation.
For readers of British history and eighteenth-century nobility, including those who want to learn the real story behind the movie.
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.
