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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Georgiana Spencer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Georgiana was a celebrated beauty and a socialite who gathered around her a large circle of literary and political figures - a salon.
Georgiana herself formed a relationship with Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, by whom she had a daughter.
Later members of the same family as Georgiana include Lady Caroline Lamb and Diana, Princess of Wales, (Georgiana was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana -- who was known before her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales as Lady Diana Spencer).
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ge/Georgiana_Spencer   (265 words)

  
  Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( June 7, 1757 - March 30, 1806), born Lady Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
Georgiana herself formed a relationship with Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, by whom she had a daughter (an ancestor of Sarah, Duchess of York).
Georgiana's brother the 2nd Earl Spencer was ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales (former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales), who was born Lady Diana Spencer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgiana%2C_Duchess_of_Devonshire   (582 words)

  
 Definition of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (June 7, 1757 - March 30, 1806), born Lady Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
Georgiana herself formed a relationship with Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, by whom she had a daughter (an ancestor of Sarah, Duchess of York).
Georgiana's brother the 2nd Earl Spencer was ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales (former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales), who was born Lady Diana Spencer.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Georgiana%2C_Duchess_of_Devonshire   (613 words)

  
 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lady Georgiana Spencer ( June 7, 1757 - March 30, 1806) was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
Georgiana was a celebrated beauty and a socialite who gathered around her a large circle of literary and political figures - a salon.
Georgiana herself formed a relationship with Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, by whom she had a daughter (who is an ancestor of Sarah, Duchess of York).
www.wikisearch.net /en/wikipedia/g/ge/georgiana__duchess_of_devonshire.html   (549 words)

  
 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl".
By 1784 Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands", and the creditors she acquired dogged her until her death, but the sterility of her marriage meant that she never came close to disclosing the magnitude of her debts.
She is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned.
www.afcd.co.uk /Georgiana-Duchess-of-Devonshire-0_0006550169_1   (234 words)

  
 4Reference || Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lady Georgiana Spencer ( June 7, 1757 - March 30, 1806) was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.
Georgiana herself formed a relationship with Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, by whom she had a daughter.
Later members of the same family as Georgiana include Lady Caroline Lamb and Diana, Princess of Wales, (Georgiana was the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana -- who was known before her marriage to Charles, Prince of Wales as Lady Diana Spencer).
www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Georgiana_Duchess_of_Devonshire.html   (282 words)

  
 Georgiana by Amanda Foreman
Georgiana was only fourteen when people began to speculate on her choice of husband.
Georgiana combined a perfect mastery of etiquette with a mischievous grace and ease which met with approval in the artificial and mannered atmosphere of the French court.
The Spencers were extremely gratified by the interest he showed in their eldest daughter, and it did not escape Georgiana's notice that she was being watched; she knew that her parents wanted her to succeed.
www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0375753834&view=printexcerpt   (3176 words)

  
 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Compare prices
Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl".
By 1784 Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands", and the creditors she acquired dogged her until her death, but the sterility of her marriage meant that she never came close to disclosing the magnitude of her debts.
She is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned.
www.priceclash.co.uk /georgiana-duchess-of-devonshire-489   (234 words)

  
 Georgiana's Garden -Childhood
Georgiana Spencer was born at Althorp, Northamptonshire on the 7th of June 1757, the eldest child to the first Earl Spencer and Countess Spencer.
When Georgiana was 7 the family moved into the newly built Spencer House on Green Park, rather strangely just two minutes walk from the house where she would spend most of her married life.
Georgiana remembered the parties going on long into the night, and despite her mother's later deep Christian beliefs, the wine flowed freely and fortunes were won and lost on the gambling tables.
www.angelfire.com /grrl/georgiana/childhood.html   (488 words)

  
 Georgiana by Amanda Foreman
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day.
Georgiana emerged into the world with considerable poise and charm, but she was desperately needy and easily manipulated.
When Fanny Burney met Georgiana she assumed that flmail had to be at the heart of Georgiana's continuing friendship with Bess.
www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0375753834&view=printrg   (544 words)

  
 William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He was married twice: first, to Lady Georgiana Spencer ( 1757 - 1806); second, to Lady Elizabeth Foster.
Georgiana Spencer was a socialite who gathered around her a large circle or literary and political friends.
His first child was born shortly after his marriage to Lady Georgiana Spencer (no relation to his mistress).
www.open-encyclopedia.com /William_Cavendish%2C_5th_Duke_of_Devonshire   (419 words)

  
 Shadowcat Book Reviews - Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Georgiana was lonely and frustrated, berated by her mother and in-laws for her failure to produce a male child but her biggest flaw was her addiction to gambling - a habit she could not break despite her husband's threat to divorce her because of her debts.
Georgiana herself sought love outside her marriage but became pregnant with her lover's child and was exiled abroad for years.
Georgiana's feckless gambling is frustrating and her absolute loyalty to her beloved friend Bess despite widespread public knowledge of her relationship with William is bizarre.
www.shadowcat.name /book0625.html   (496 words)

  
 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lady Georgiana Spencer ( June 7 1757 - March 30 1806) was the first wife of William Cavendish 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of William George Spencer 6th Duke of Devonshire.
Georgiana was famous not only for her arrangements her beauty and sense of style political campaigning but also for her love gambling.
Georgiana's brother the 2nd Earl Spencer ancestor of Diana Princess of Wales (former of Charles Prince of Wales) who was born Lady Diana Spencer.
www.freeglossary.com /Georgiana_Spencer   (687 words)

  
 Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire
Drama: `Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire' by Amanda Foreman (1/15).
Drama: `Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire' by Amanda Foreman (2/15).
Drama: `Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire' by Amanda Foreman (3/15).
www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/georgiana__duchess_of_devonshire.html   (628 words)

  
 Review - Georgiana
Born Lady Georgiana Spencer (at Althorpe), she was, coincidentally, the sister of an ancestor of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, whose blonde beauty, sweetness, commitment to charitable causes, elegant fashion sense, and occasional cluelessness she shared.
Georgiana also suffered acutely from bulimia - before it was even fashionable - under the joint pressure to be both the perfect daugther tor her adoring parents and the perfect Duchess to her immensely powerful and equally clueless husband, whom she accepted at 16 to please her family.
As feminist history, Georgiana’s story is also invaluable since it tells of a time period in history in which women really were movers and shakers in politics.
www.peers.org /revgeor.html   (626 words)

  
 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - Olga's Gallery
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), née Spencer, wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire was a leader of London's high society.
On the potrait she is with Georgiana future Duchess of Devonshire as a child.
For over twenty years the three lived together with a harmony only interrupted by Lady Elizabeth’s departure abroad to give birth to the Duke’s children, and Georgiana’s own banishment to Europe when she was carrying a baby by Charles Grey, later to be P rime Minister.
www.abcgallery.com /bio/georgiana.html   (322 words)

  
 Third Place Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Born in 1757 into the highest ranks of the British aristocracy, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire was a captivating woman, a real-life character worthy of de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
At the age of 17, Lady Georgiana Spencer married the Duke of Devonshire, one of the most powerful and wealthy men in England.
Georgiana herself was a hopelesslyaddicted gambler and sank into a cycle of debt (to the tune of $6-1/2 million in today's money) and dishonesty.
www.thirdplacebooks.com /NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=0375502947   (306 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan was also a Whig politician, entering parliament in 1780 under the sponsorship of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
Sheridan was born in Dublin on October 30, 1751 at 12 Dorset Street, a fashionable street in the late eighteenth century.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, third son of Thomas and Frances Sheridan, was born in Dublin on the 30th of October, 1751.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Brinsley-Sheridan   (2444 words)

  
 Georgiana Spencer Felt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Her celebrated and faithful father, Daniel Spencer, was president of the Salt Lake Stake of Zion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) for nineteen years before he passed away in 1868.
Georgiana's mother was Elizabeth Funnell Spencer, and she must have made her living as a seamstress.
There was once a famous Lady Georgiana Spencer born in 1757, who was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.
www.nhfelt.org /default.asp?PG=bio_felt_georgiana_spencer   (21276 words)

  
 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg207 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Georgiana CARTERET Lady was born 1716 and died 21 Aug 1780.
Georgiana SPENCER Duchess was born 1757 and died 30 Mar 1806.
Robert Cavendish SPENCER Capt.,Sir was born 24 Oct 1791.
www.maximiliangenealogy.co.uk /maximilia/pafg207.htm   (303 words)

  
 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire book review by the Evening Standard
Though her subject is the daughter of an earlier Earl Spencer, Amanda Foreman avoids the temptation to cash in on parallels with a later tragic heroine from that family.
Her story of Georgiana Spencer stands squarely on its own two feet, a richly-documented and poignant tale of a remarkable lady.
In a daring and quite unprecedented move, Georgiana in effect became his campaign manager at the general elections of the 1780s, even canvassing in the streets - lewd cartoons depicted her trading votes for kisses among the shopkeepers of Westminster.
www.amanda-foreman.com /evening-standard2.shtml   (542 words)

  
 William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire - Definition, explanation
He was married twice: first, to Lady Georgiana Spencer (1757 - 1806); second, to Lady Elizabeth Foster.
Georgiana Spencer was a socialite who gathered around her a large circle or literary and political friends.
His first child was born shortly after his marriage to Lady Georgiana Spencer (no relation to his mistress).
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/w/wi/william_cavendish__5th_duke_of_devonshire.php   (450 words)

  
 Books tagged "biography history" | LibraryThing
Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1806 (1)
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman (1)
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman [Alan_Wilson]
www.librarything.com /tag/biography+history   (150 words)

  
 BirthdayChallenge1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lady Georgiana Spencer of Althorp (1757‑1806), exceedingly tall, beautiful, and gregarious, fell in love with one of the most eligible bachelors in England, William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748‑1811).
Georgiana breathed fresh air into London society (or perhaps pumped fresh blood would be more accurate), and soon she held the salon, entertaining Sheridan, Samuel Johnson, and others who described her with superlatives as they commented on her beauty, grace, charm, and wit.
Georgiana was mourned by the Duke, her children, and Lady Elizabeth.
www.ash-nyc.com /BirthdayChallenge1998.htm   (773 words)

  
 MIDWIVES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day.
In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Caven­dish, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats, and became the queen of fashionable society.
Was it a form of protest against her unhappy marriage, an expression of anger against a society that favored men over women, the result of childhood trauma, a dem­onstration of character weakness, or an amalgamation of all?
www.readinggroupchoices.com /book%20entries/2001%20LIST/Georgiana.htm   (470 words)

  
 Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library Paperbacks):Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She came from one of England's richest and most landed families (the late Princess Diana was a Spencer too) and married into another.
Biographer Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that surrounded the personal relationships of the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into the duke's bed and the duchess's heart).
Foreman is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned.
www.softforall.com /store/P-0375753834.html   (306 words)

  
 Dame Judi Dench Website -- Main Page ... A Fine Romance, As Time Goes By, Mrs. Brown, Shakespeare in Love ...
An inspirational woman of her time, there are many aspects of the character and experiences of Lady Georgiana Spencer which are equally relevant to the lives of contemporary women.
Her successful entry into the male-dominated world of politics, her relationship with the press, her stuggle with addiction, and her determination to forge her own identity are material for a rich and fascinating production.
Georgiana documented all these things in her letters, journals, poem and plays, which along with detailed press reports, contribute to form a detailed picture of both her and her times.
www.djdchronology.com /georgianainfo.htm   (339 words)

  
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Born Lady Georgiana Spencer in 1757, she married at 17 to the very rich but emotionally stunted Duke of Devonshire, the only man in England not in love with her, newspapers would later claim.
Georgiana's intricate hairdos, her convoluted love affairs and substantial political influence would make her as closely observed as a later Spencer: Diana, Princess of Wales.
Georgiana and her husband lived for many years with the grifter Lady Elizabeth Foster, who bore the Duke at least one child and possibly two.
www.atgbcentral.com /georgiana.html   (593 words)

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