Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Genre,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Foreman
Author First Name:
Amanda
Pages:
502
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 10:
0006550169
ISBN 13:
9780006550167
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published:
1/1/0001
Genre:
Biographies and Autobiographies
Description
Paperback. Pub Date :2004-03-01 Pages: 496 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 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.
