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The Sylph is a 1778 novel by Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was her second printed work and was published anonymously under the name 'A Young Lady'. The Sylph is an epistolary novel. It centres on Julia Grenville, a Welsh beauty and ingenue (with whom there are parallels with Cavendish herself) who leaves her idyllic rustic life ...
24 de dic. de 2013 · Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire between 1774 – 1806, is one of history’s most complicated and fascinating characters. Beautiful, intelligent and charismatic, she quickly became the 18th century equivalent of today’s ‘It Girl.’ Despite her widespread popularity with the general public, Georgiana’s private life was a disaster. Drinking, drugs and gambling, illicit love ...
1 de nov. de 2016 · Lady Georgiana Spencer, socialite and leading political hostess of the 18th century, held court over a circle of influence and fashion at Devonshire House in London. She was seventeen years old when she married the 5th Duke of Devonshire in 1774. He was eleven years her senior and one of only a handful whose wealth exceeded the Spencers’.
11 de abr. de 2020 · Portrait of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757‑1806) with her infant daughter Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1783‑1858), later Countess of Carlisle.PNG 1,162 × 939; 2.58 MB Portrait of Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire, née Spencer (by Jeremiah Meyer).jpg 1,024 × 1,221; 155 KB
Devonshire’s extreme fondness for dogs inspired Georgiana and Lady Elizabeth to call him Canis, ‘Dog’. Georgiana’s daughter Harriet, given a puppy by Canis, complained of this mania: ‘ he really thinks of little else, and the whole time of dinner and supper he feeds and watches them… and listens to no conversation with half the pleasure as he does when these puppies are the subject.
devonshire, duchess of, georgiana cavendish. A lady as remarkable for her talents as her beauty, was the eldest daughter of Earl Spenser, and was born in 1757. In her seventeenth year, she married the Duke of Devonshire, a distinguished nobleman.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Elizabeth Courtney (20 February 1792 – 2 May 1859) was the illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and socialite Georgiana Cavendish (née Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana was married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of ...
