Georgiana was not content to lead the fashionable set nor merely to host soirées for the Whig party, instead she became an adept political campaigner and negotiator, respected by the Whigs and feared by her adversaries. Though most of her contemporaries adored her because she seemed so natural and vibrant, only a few knew how tormented she was by self-doubt and loneliness. She was thrust into public life at the age of sixteen, unprepared for the pressures that quickly followed and unsupported in a cold and loveless marriage. Born Lady Georgiana Spencer, she married the fifth Duke of Devonshire in 1774.
WINNER OF THE 1998 WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AWARDįINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDĪs one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the late 18th century, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was an icon of her time.
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