
The Duchess
Amanda Foreman(Author)
Fiona Shaw(Speaker)
William Collins (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 4. August 2008
Audio
CD-Audio
978-0-00-729079-6 (ISBN)
Description
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people.
This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour and great wealth - always on the edge of being squandered by the excesses and scandals of individuals.
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people.
This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour and great wealth - always on the edge of being squandered by the excesses and scandals of individuals.
Reviews / Votes
'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
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Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition type
Abridged edition
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 125 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Duration
Dauer: 183 min
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-729079-6 (9780007290796)
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Amanda Foreman
The Duchess (Text Only)
E-Book
09/2012
1st Edition
HarperPress
€10.59
Available for download
Persons
Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York, before receiving her doctorate in 18th Century British History from Oxford University. She is married with five children. Since 2005 she has a been a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary College, London University.