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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 Chatsworth Cookery Book (2003) Round About Chatsworth (2005) Memories of Andrew Devonshire (2007) The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (2007), edited by Charlotte Mosley, ISBN 0-06-137364-8; In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley; Home to Roost . . . and Other ...
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.
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.
After completing her DPhil, Foreman remained at Oxford as a researcher, [citation needed] and in 1998 she published her first book, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, based on her doctoral thesis. Published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the US, the book was an international best-seller and reached number one [ citation needed ...
Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Hervey; 13 May 1758 – 30 March 1824) was an English aristocrat and letter writer. She is best known as Lady Elizabeth Foster , the close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire .
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire (2010). Wait for Me!: Memoirs. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-20768-7. Further reading. Burke, John (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank. Great Britain: Nabu Press.
Some women to have held the title Duchess of Devonshire, as wives of the Duke of Devonshire, include: Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1646–1710), wife of the first duke; Rachel Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1674 – 1725), wife of the second duke; Catherine Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1700–1777), wife of the third duke