A review by lurdesabruscato
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

3.0

Georgiana Spencer, part of England's elite ton in the late 1700s, was a true paradox: beautiful but plagued with wrecked relationships; political and influential but unable to achieve real governmental change; popular, giving and trend-setting, but also a degenerate gambler, cheater and liar. Her life and efforts not only altered high society, she nearly single-handedly helped bring about a democratic two-party system. Despite its tantalizing subject matter, Foreman's book is written as a true biography, with a heavy reliance on letters and diaries, so it often can be too dry and too littered with the dozens of players of that period.