The Duchess
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HARPER COLLINS
- ISBN13 9780007285754
- ISBN10 0007285752
- Type Book
- Pages 463
- Published 2008
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Sections
English LiteratureThe Duchess
Editorial HARPER COLLINS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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. Georgiana's extraordinary life has now been made into a major film - starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes - which is due for release in summer 2008.