GEORGIANA DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE (PB)

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Princess Diana, she was a compulsive gambler, a political savant and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adulteress and the darling of the common people. This authoritative, utterly absorbing book presents a mesmerizing picture of a fascinating world of political and sexual intrigues, grand houses, huge parties, glamour, and great wealth perpetually on the edge of being squandered.