Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award 1998
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.
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Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968. She is the daughter of the late Hollywood film maker Carl Foreman (High Noon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Guns of Navarone). Her early years were spent shuttling between home in Los Angeles and school in Dorset. Her first book, 'Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire' won the 1998 Whitbread Biography of the year Award.
A self-confessed Trekkie, when not at work she is either cooking, surfing the net, or catching up on the latest sci-fi.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Amanda Foreman
- 1999, XVI, 463 Seiten, 16 farbige Abbildungen, 32 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: FLAMINGO
- ISBN-10: 0006550169
- ISBN-13: 9780006550167
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'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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