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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.
2 de feb. de 2015 · 2nd February 2015. Born in 1757, Georgiana Spencer became a prominent noble within British history, but did so for various reasons. From a young age Georgiana was her mother’s favourite, and was ...
Administrative / Biographical History. Georgiana Cavendish (née Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), was the eldest daughter of John Spencer, first Earl Spencer and his wife, Margaret Georgiana Spencer (née Poyntz). Of her four siblings, only two others survived to adulthood: George John Spencer, who became second Earl; and Henrietta.
13 de oct. de 2012 · Lady Georgiana Spencer was born in Althorp, Northamptonshire, on 7 June 1757. She was the eldest daughter of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, one of the richest men in England, and Margaret Georgiana Poyntz. She had two siblings, George and Henrietta, known as Harriet, later Lady Bessborough. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Amanda Foreman. Random House, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 454 pages. The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a ...
Duchess Georgiana’s poem, 'The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard', was written when travelling back to England from her exile in Europe in the early 1790s. It was inspired by her experience of crossing the Saint Gotthard Pass in the Alps with Lady Elizabeth Foster in August 1793. Written at a time when the mountainous scenery of the Alps ...
The Sylph. 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 ...
