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Book Review of The Duchess

The Duchess
The Duchess
Author: Amanda Foreman
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


Excellent and highly readable book about a woman of great intelligence, beauty and spirit who had a lasting effect on the time in which she lived. This last cannot be said of many women of the time: unenfranchised, chattle of their husbands, restricted in their thoughts and movement in the world. Meanwhile, men held the political power as well as the domestic. Georgiana managed to enter a world in which she could could use her flair to become both politically influential and a star of society. Highly recommended - much less of a potboiler than the movie!