The Duchess

The Duchess by Amanda Foreman




A wonderful story, though somewhat sad, of this amazing woman and her involvement with life in the politics of the day between the Whigs and the Pittites. Beset by debts through who inability to stop gamlbing and throwing lavish parties regularly, this story shows just how the arostocracy lived back in the late 18th century and how this woman, the Duchess of Derbyshire, tended to be different



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