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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.

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Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 1 June 1999
      ISBN-13 9780006550167
      978-0006550167
      ISBN-10 0006550169
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      Biography Biography: adventurers and explorers Biography: royalty History Social and cultural history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review

      ‘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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