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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
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- Titel
- Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Amanda Foreman
- Verlag
- Flamingo
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0583347576
- ISBN13
- 9780583347570
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Historische Romane, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Britische Literatur, 18. Jahrhundert
- Bewertung
- 3,8 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.