Amanda Foreman

The Duchess (Text Only) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published as Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.

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's extraordinary life has now been made into a major film - starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes - which is due for release in summer 2008.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007372683
• Artikelnr.: 38066096

Autorenporträt

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 Eighteenth-Century British History from Oxford University. Since 2005 she has a been a Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary College, London. She is married with five children.

Rezensionen

'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