The Duchess (Text Only)

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'Mesmerizing.' Antonia Fraser, Literary Review


'Well-written, extensively researched and highly readable... Gripping.' Stella Tillyard, Mail on Sunday


'An outstanding debut by a young biographer fully in control of her sources, and with an easy and elegant writing style.' Roy Strong, Sunday Times


'A pungent, intimate blend of biography and history...a provocative contribution to our understanding of women of the past.' Jenny Uglow, Independent


'Packed with fascinating information and grippingly good.' Lisa Jardine


'Real-life glamour, peppered with a menage a trois and a dose of depression...Curl up and devour it.' Elle


'A gorgeous Whig romp...[and] a serious, as well as seriously enjoyable, historical biography.' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times


'Excellent and fascinating.' Sunday Telegraph


'From this very entertaining account emerges a vibrant picture of late-eighteenth-century life and politics, and the portrait of a rare and highly talented woman.' Observer


'A sparkling biography.' Marie Claire


'Brilliantly researched, compellingly told, this is biography of the first order.' Daily Telegraph