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Lady mary coke nee campbell was born in 1727 and was the cousin of the famous georgiana spencer cavendish, duchess of devonshire. In 1774 georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying william cavendish, fifth duke of devonshire, one of englands richest and most influential aristocrats. Georgiana, duchess of devonshire, is the biography of a most unusual woman. The publisher has supplied this book in drm free form with digital watermarking. Yet amanda foremans georgiana is much more than one of those ersatz popular biographies full of pillow talk and emotions that result more from the biographers imagination than real research. She was an author, a mother, a fashion trend setter, and a political powerhouse. She was politically active, a progressive thinker, had an atrocious gambling habit that kept her perpetually in debt and suffered from an unfortunate, sometimes unhappy, marriage.
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