Their marriage in 1774 united two of the richest families in Britain, the Spencers (yes, those Spencers) and the Cavendishes. Everything she did, said and wore became news, and the tattletale press claimed the only man in England not in love with her was the duke.Ī power couple if ever there was one, they lived on a scale scarcely imaginable today. Stardom comes cheap in the digital age, but in 18th-century England, when the ''media'' were mostly ink-stained broadsheets and fame really meant something, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), was a bona fide celebrity, aįorce to be reckoned with in politics as well as society.
The real-life model for Lady Teazle, the subject of Amanda Foreman's penetrating and enormously entertaining biography, inhabited a world more fevered and eventful than Omen of fashion in London are accountable to nobody after they are married,'' Lady Teazle says in Sheridan's ''School for Scandal.''īut accountability wasn't the half of it.
A biography of an 18th-century English duchess with a taste for scandal and politics.
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