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The Duchess is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
A young Miss Georgiana Spencer with her mother, Margaret Georgiana Spencer. Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.. The Duchess was born Miss Georgiana Spencer, on 7 June 1757, [4] as the first child of John Spencer (later Earl Spencer) and his wife, Georgiana (née Poyntz, later Countess Spencer), at the Spencer family home, Althorp. [3]
The Sylph is a 1778 novel by Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.It was her second printed work and was published anonymously under the name 'A Young Lady'. The Sylph is an epistolary novel.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), first wife of the fifth duke; Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1759–1824), second wife of the fifth duke; Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1832–1911), wife of the eighth duke; Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1870–1960), wife of the ninth duke
Georgiana was present at the birth of Harriet's first child, Susan, in 1810. [24] In early 1803, Georgiana and Morpeth joined her aunt Lady Bessborough in Paris. There, Bessborough and her niece were popular guests of the French nobility. [25] The Duchess of Devonshire died later that year, on 30 March, having been ill for some time. [2]
Lady Elizabeth with Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, by Guérin, ca. 1791. In May 1782, Bess met the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in Bath, and quickly became Georgiana's closest friend. From this time, she lived in a triad with Georgiana and her husband, William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, for about 25 years.
Leading branches have held high offices in English and then in British politics, especially since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the participation of William Cavendish (then Earl of Devonshire) in the Invitation to William, though the family appears to date to the Norman Conquest of England, [citation needed] with Cavendish being used (in ...
The Duchess (Random House, 2008), 456 pp. ISBN 0812979699 OCLC 234316192 Originally published as Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Random House, 2001), 512 pp. ISBN 0-375-50294-7 OCLC 41278384 Another ed. was published By HarperCollins in 2000. Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana's World: The ...