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The Duchess was the older sister of Lady Diana's great-great-great-grandfather, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer. The Duchess was released on 5 September 2008 in the United Kingdom. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It won the Best Costume Design and was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 81st Academy Awards.
Duchess is a 2024 British crime movie directed by Neil Marshall. It is a revenge action thriller, featuring a female protagonist portrayed by Charlotte Kirk . The film received both a limited box office release, and generally poor critical reception.
The Duchess is a British comedy-drama television series created by and starring Katherine Ryan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It premiered on Netflix on 11 September 2020. On 29 April 2021, the series was cancelled after one series.
It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young," which is quoted by one of the characters in the novel.
The Duchess is a character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865.Carroll does not describe her physically in much detail, although as stated in Chapter 9, "Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was very ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an ...
The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche, [1] is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC", and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Based on the themes and title of the poem, most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368 (when Blanche of Lancaster ...
The concept of the natural abode was an explanation for how gravity functions: a stone dropped from any height will fall down to reach the ground, smoke will rise into the air, and rivers always lead to the sea. Because sound is "broken air", this means that it is light, which means that it will rise upwards, which means that its natural abode ...
The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows the thoughts and actions of a greedy jeweller; Woolf makes a thematic point that corrupt people do corrupt actions for purely selfish motives (and often without regret).