The Duchess - Amanda Foreman

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, History
Language: English
Keywords: 1700's Georgian England Spencer Family

Written by Amanda Foreman
Read by Wanda McCaddon
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape/Tantor
Release date: April 12, 2016
Duration: 15:36:15

Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.

In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time.

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.

With penetrating insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.

“AUDIOFILE Golden Voice Wanda McCaddon’s voice, with its precise British accent, is the perfect vehicle to deliver this detailed examination of the life and times of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. McCaddon convincingly handles the emotionally extreme outpourings of the Duchess, the worry and frustration of her mother, the languid indifference of the Duke, as well as the myriad personalities who make less prominent appearances. McCaddon’s presentation of this richly detailed history, which reads like a compelling soap opera, is further validation of her award-winning status as a narrator.”