The Duchess (Text Only)

图书信息

作者	Amanda Foreman
出版社	HarperPress
ISBN	9780007372683
出版时间	2012-09-20
字数	93.6万
分类	进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

A tale of decadence and excess, great houses and wild parties, love and sexual intrigue, this biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, casts an astonishing new light on the nobility of eighteenth-century England. Fashionable, extravagant and universally adored, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most influential women of her day. But her flamboyant public persona hid a multitude of personal troubles: drug addiction, vast gambling debts, an unhappy ménage à trois with her husband and best friend, and a doomed affair with the future prime minister. Like her descendant, Diana, Princess of Wales, Georgiana was a vulnerable woman living the life of an icon. This utterly absorbing biography, recently made into a major film starring Keira Knightley as the Duchess of Devonshire, paints a touching portrait of a misunderstood woman.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Family Trees

Part One: Débutante

1: Debutante 1757–1774

2: Fashion’s Favourite 1774–1776

3: The Vortex of Dissipation 1776–1778

4: A Popular Patriot 1778–1781

5: Introduction to Politics 1780–1782

Part Two: Politics

6: The Cuckoo Bird 1782–1783

7: An Unstable Coalition 1783

8: A Birth and a Death 1783–1784

9: The Westminster Election 1784

10: Opposition 1784–1786

11: Queen Bess 1787

12: Ménage à Trois 1788

13: The Regency Crisis 1788–1789

Part Three: Exile

14: The Approaching Storm 1789–1790

15: Exposure 1790–1791

16: Exile 1791–1793

17: Return 1794–1796

18: Interlude 1796

19: Isolation 1796–1799

Part Four: Georgiana Redux

20: Georgiana Redux 1800–1801

21: Peace 1801–1802

22: Power Struggles 1802–1803

23: The Doyenne of the Whig Party 1803–1804

24: ‘The Ministry of All the Talents’ 1804–1806

Epilogue

Select Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Notes

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher