''Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was born in the eighteenth century and died in the early nineteenth century, but her life was very modern in many ways. She was an open activist at a time when women were supposed to stay behind the scenes, a bold and flamboyant hostess who used her social prestige to advance her political agenda, and a beautiful but ultimately self-destructive woman whose emotions helped shape British history.''
Amanda Foreman's book is not so much about Georgiana herself as a retrospective of these times, an account of the Whig oligarchy and the political fights. Very well researched but a bit 'dry'.
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