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　　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. --This text refers to the

Paperback

edition.

Introduction  :

A Note on Eighteenth-Century Politics

Chronology

Family Trees of Spencers and Cavendishes

PART ONE: DEBUTANTE

 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

　The Newcomer: 1782-1783

　An Unstable Coalition: 1783

  8 ABirth and a Death: 1783-1784

  9 The Westminster Election: 1784

　10 Opposition: 1784-1786

　11 Queen Bess: 1787

　12 Menage a 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

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Reading Group Guide

　　Amanda Foreman, born in London in 1968, was educated at Sarah

Lawrence College, Columbia University, and Oxford University, where

she received a Ph.D. in history. A freelance journalist and until

recently a researcher at Oxford, she has, since the immensely

successful publication of Georgiana in the United Kingdom,

made numerous television and radio appearances there, including the

presentation of a Channel 4 documentary on the life of her subject.

The Duchess (originally published as Georgiana: Duchess

of Devonshire) is her first book. She lives in New York City

and London.

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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.