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Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl". She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive and extravagant. Acquainted fairly young with Charles James Fox, her move from parties to Parties led her to become the intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School For Scandal. But, luckily for her biographer, she also had weaknesses that were to taint her life. As gin gripped the masses, so gambling enthralled the aristocracy. By 1784 Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands", and the creditors she acquired dogged her until her death, but the sterility of her marriage meant that she never came close to disclosing the magnitude of her debts. Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that was personal relationships for the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the Duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into his bed and her heart). She is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. An impressive debut, in every sense. --David Vincent
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Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century It Girl. She came from one of England's richest and most landed families (the late Princess Diana was a Spencer too) and married into another. She was beautiful, sensitive, and extravagant--drugs, drink, high-profile love affairs, and even gambling counted among her favorite leisure-time activities. Nonetheless, she quickly moved from a world dominated by social parties to one focused on political parties. The duchess was an intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for the character of Lady Teazle in Richard Sheridan's famous play The School for Scandal. But her weaknesses marked the last part of her life. By 1784, for one, Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands," and her creditors dogged her until her death.
Biographer Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that surrounded the personal relationships of the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into the duke's bed and the duchess's heart). Foreman is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. An impressive debut, in every sense. --David Vincent, Amazon.co.uk -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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I know I was handsome...and have always been fashionable, but I do assure you," Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote to her daughter at the end of her life, "our negligence and ommissions have been forgiven and we have been loved, more from our being free from airs than from any other circumstance." Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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I know I was handsome...and have always been fashionable, but I do assure you," Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, wrote to her daughter at the end of her life, "our negligence and ommissions have been forgiven and we have been loved, more from our being free from airs than from any other circumstance." Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Dies Buch ist ein wenig in Misskredit geraten, weil es immer wieder mit dem Film "The Duchess" assoziiert wird. Aber während der Film hoch polierter Leinwandschrott ist (der in England in einer peinlichen Werbekampagne noch mit Prinzessin Diana Assoziationen vermarktet wurde), ist das Buch von Amanda Foreman eine seriöse Biographie. Die Autorin ist Historikerin, Spezialistin für das 18. Jahrhundert und hat einen Doktortitel von der Universität Oxford. Wenn eine Autorin gut schreiben kann, ist das immer eine Gefahr, weil schnell behauptet wird, dass die Wissenschaftlichkeit zugunsten des schönen Stils aufgegeben wurde. Antonia Fraser musste sich solche Kritik immer wieder anhören. Und man muss natürlich zugeben, dass das Buch gut geschrieben ist. Dass es 1998 den Whitbread Biography of the Year Award gewonnen hat, ist sicher kein Zufall. Im gleichen Jahr erschien übrigens ein Buch über die Lieblingsfeindin von Georgiana, die Herzogin von Gordon. Es heißt "Island of the Swans" und wurde von einer Frau namens Ciji Ware geschrieben, wenn Ihnen der Sinn nach einer Schmonzette steht, kaufen Sie sich das Buch. Oder die DVD von "The Duchess" mit Keira Knightley.
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I purchased this book based on numerous reviews (both here and elsehwere) and while I found the story of Georgiana fascinating, the book's overwhelming political passages forced me to put it down numerous times. I eventually abandoned it about 2/3 of the way through because I found myself paging through until I was beyond sections about Georgiana's political involvements.
The author does a wonderful job of giving us the flavor of Georgiana's life and personality. However, if you only have a passing interest/knowledge (as I do) or no knowledge of English political history, I'd say to pass this one up.
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Georgianna deserves to find an American audience as proportionately big as its British audience. Georgiana was a smash over there in England, a country fond of behind-the-scenes stories of aristocratic ladies in the past. (And in the present, too: much has been made of the connections between the Duchess of Devonshire and her descendent, Diana, Princess of Wales.) Yet Amanda Foreman's Georgiana is much more than one of those ersatz popular biographies full of pillow talk and emotions that result more from the biographer's imagination than real research. The book is written in an unpretentious, straightforward style that values clarity above everything. You don't have to be a Masterpiece-Theater-watching anglophile to appreciate its glamour, wit, and intrigue, and you don't have to be a professional historian to grasp its many provocative implications about history and the birth of mass political campaigning. Amanda Foreman must thank heaven every day that such a brilliant subject came her way, and she serves it well. Still, it would be hard to write an uninteresting book about the Duchess of Devonshire. She is a wonderfully paradoxical figure whose meaning seductively eludes the reader's grasp: was she a dilettante or a genuine, energetic talent frustrated by the sexism of her time? Was she merely acting out of the privilege of her class (really, she was above class) or was she genuinely driven ? The ladies of Stella Tillyard's Aristocrats come across as pampered pawns who infrequently lucked into a little free will. Foreman's Georgiana, in contrast, proves that at least one late-18th-century Englishwoman was capable of acting upon her will-even if she made more than one life-altering whopper of a bad decision. Foreman clearly loves her subject, but she does not leave out the flaws and weaknesses in Georgianna's character--all her indulgence, dishonesy, and self-interestedness are on display here. Still, one of Georgianna's greatest charms was learning from her mistakes, and thus her life-narrative has the arc of a good novel. One problem: it's hard for the non-historian to judge Foreman's claim that the duchess's political success represented a general involvement of women in politics of the time greater than is usually acknowledged. What woman other than Georgiana, so unlike anyone else, enjoyed her kind of power and how many were so advantageously poised, by birth and marriage, to find or create that power? Still, Georgianna's story, in Foreman's skillful telling of it, points to the truth of her claim that "the propensity of women's historians to ignore high politics, and of political historians to ignore women, has resulted in a profound misunderstanding of one of the most sexually integrated periods of British history."
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georgiana.duchess of devonshire
Die Herzogin von Devonshire: Das Leben einer leidenschaftlichen Frauan interesting book concerning the life and times in english history of a female member of the nobility . Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Mai 2009 von Mel Macholla
Excellent read!
I truly enjoyed this book! Try as I might, I couldn't put it down until I had finished the last page. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. Juli 2000 von E. Evans
An Excellent Biography from the 18th Century
Amanda Foreman wrote that she became obsessed with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, during the course of her research. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Juni 2000 von "ericag"
Georgiana
Not liking it at all. It is hard to stay focused when reading. The book just doesn't flow well.
Am 5. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
The only bad thing about this book is that it's inevitably going to end. If you love superbly written and beautifully researched biographies and have ANY interest whatsoever in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juni 2000 von Sylvia Roupe
Biography?
Despite the author's meticulous documentation/footnoting and attention to detail, this book reads much more like a novel than any bio I've ever read....It's a real page-turner... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. April 2000 veröffentlicht
The Spencers-A Remarkable Family
This was a great book. I study the British Royalty and have for years. This book interested me initially because it was about the Duchess of Devonshire and I wanted to know more. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. April 2000 von "birdluvr"
Absolutely Bloody Fantastic
I would like to congratulate Ms Foreman on a book that I could not put down. I can't wait to see if she writes another book. Please hurry up !
Am 23. März 2000 veröffentlicht
More History This Good And Reading Of Fiction Will Decline
That this book was The Whitbread Award Winner, and a tremendous success in The Duchess Of Devonshire's own country, is no surprise. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. März 2000 von taking a rest
the age of excesses
I am a novice at historical biographies and this one prooves an amazing read! After the first page the colourful lives of the Duchesses,the Dukes,the Ladies and the Lords became... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Februar 2000 von k.kon thai
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