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Fascinating. Magnificent. Sensitively told. Complex, capricious, beautiful and boldly ambitious, Elizabeth Chudleigh was also one of the most reviled women in Georgian England. In resurrecting her tale, Catherine Ostler allows the Duchess of Kingston to emerge from the prejudices of the past like a resplendent phoenix.’ Assumptions: Foreman writes, that biographers have a tendency to fall in love with their subjects, which makes them assume things about them that might not be true, simply because they want them to be true. Sadly, I felt like Foreman herself fell into this trap a few times. Like saying that the Duke of Devonshire had no intention of hurting Georgiana. That may very well be true, but where is the evidence? Where is the proof? I am of the opinion that if you make an assumption, you have to own up to the fact that it is an assumption. Don't state it as if it is a fact. Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2008 Golden Globe Awards Nominations for the Year Ended December 31, 2008" (Press release). Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 11 December 2008 . Retrieved 8 April 2020. A masterclass in biography. Ostler brings her protagonist to life with dazzling prose, meticulous research and unique human sensibility. An immersive, glamorous odyssey stretching from rural England to the glittering palaces of St Petersburg, The D uchess Countess is a technicolour portrait of one of history’s most dynamic, but least understood heroines. An instant classic.’
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Since William usually looked elsewhere for his sexual pleasures, Georgiana had to do something about it. She duly consulted a celebrated fertility “doctor”, James Graham, who was popular with the childless nobility. In his “Temple of Health and Hymen”: I was so impressed by this book that I’ll be diving into her next book very soon. Rumor has it that Wendy is working on the next historical fiction novel now. I can’t wait!
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The after-credits reveal Georgiana secretly visits her daughter Eliza. Eliza goes on to name her own daughter Georgiana, after her mother. Charles later becomes Prime Minister under William IV. Before she dies, Georgiana permits William and Bess to marry. Nominations 2008". British Independent Film Awards. 13 December 2008. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013 . Retrieved 13 December 2008. Yet her confident public persona hid a multitude of personal troubles. Her self-esteem became so low that she endured periods of loneliness and depression, and was occasionally subject to cycles of starvation and binge eating. She was a vulnerable woman who lived the life of an icon.
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When the Duchess turned 17 in 1774, she married William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who came from a huge noble family of political importance, but the pair were not well matched.
The tidbits of rumor and innuendo thrown in by Forman helped to make this biography very readable. Well-researched, gossipy but scholarly, Amanda Forman did her homework before putting Georgiana to press. Dawtrey, Adam (29 July 2007) Keira Knightley set for Duchess: Actress to play the controversial blueblood, Variety
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