On her 17th birthday, Lady Georgiana Spencer married one of society’s most eligible bachelors, William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who was eight years her senior. While William came from ...

In "The Duchess," a lavish melodrama of aristocratic foolishness and betrayal is designed around the colorful though not always happy life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806).

Plumed feathers, powdered wigs and corseted libidos abound in "The Duchess," but for all its luscious period trappings and Keira Knightley's spirited take on the title role, Saul Dibb's handsome ...

Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire Reviewed by Stacy Bush, Fri., July 14, 2000. Tweet. print. write a letter. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman Random House, 454 pp., $29.95 ...

Pink evening gown designed for Amanda Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, by Alessandro Michele for Gucci (Image credit: Chatsworth/Gucci) Contemporary artists who exhibit at Chatsworth need to converse ...

LONDON — Erdem Moralioglu is opening the late Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire’s wardrobe and allowing the public a peek inside her aristocratic life. “Imaginary Conversations” at ...

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) with her infant daughter Lady Georgiana Cavendish (1783-1858), later Countess of Carlisle, 1784.

The Duchess. by Jeffrey Hatcher, ... Foreman) A very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love, based around that female icon of her time, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.

Amanda Foreman is the award-winning author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War. Her next book The World Made by Women: A ...