Förlagsband med skyddsomslag. Illustrerad med fotografier i färg och svartvitt. Släktträd på försättsbladen. Översättning av Margareta Eklöf. Norsteds förlag 2001, 529 s. 23,5x16x4 cm. Vikt 910 g. Mycket gott skick.

Förlagsband med skyddsomslag. Norstedts 2001. 23,5x15,5x4 cm. Vikt ca 900 gram. 529 (1) sidor. Illustrerad med fotografier och släktträd. Mycket gott skick. (bio)

"En biografi över en av 1700-talets vackraste, mäktigaste och märkligaste kvinnor. På ytan var hon societetens älskling, en modedrottning med stort politiskt inflytande. Samtidigt förnedrades hon i pressen för sitt leverne: hon missbrukade droger, spelade

Norstedts 2001 Kartonnerad 529s. Sk.omslag Mycket gott skick. Illustrerad*

C O N D I T I O N : Good. An acceptable reading copy only. Wraps a little creased. N O T E S: Paperback. Size: B Format (7¾" x 5¼"). C O N T E N T S : Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century It Girl. She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive and extravagant. Acquainted fairly young with Charles James Fox, her move from parties to Parties led her to become the intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School For Scandal. But, luckily for her biographer, she also had weaknesses that were to taint her life. As gin gripped the masses, so gambling enthralled the aristocracy. 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. 496pp. ||| || |