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    The Duchess

    Written by Amanda Foreman

    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon

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    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

    Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes

    Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana's public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling addiction, drinking, drug-taking, and rampant love affairs with the leading politicians of the day. With penetrating insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 12, 2016
    ISBN9781524708443
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    The Duchess
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    Amanda Foreman

    Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968. She is the daughter of the late Hollywood film maker Carl Foreman (High Noon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Guns of Navarone). Her early years were spent shuttling between home in Los Angeles and school in Dorset. Her first book, ‘Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire’ won the 1998 Whitbread Biography of the year Award. A self-confessed Trekkie, when not at work she is either cooking, surfing the net, or catching up on the latest sci-fi.

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