Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Living Language Series)

by Amanda Foreman (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2001

  $3.27

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.27

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.27

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $15.66

  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.