Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

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Standard Name: Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish,,, Duchess of
Birth Name: Georgiana Spencer
Styled: Lady Georgiana Spencer
Married Name: Lady Georgiana Cavendish
Titled: Lady Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Nickname: The Rat
An occasional or amateur author during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , wrote in a number of genres: poetry, diaries, travel writings, letters, and possibly two novels. Much of her work remains unpublished and her canon, both in prose and poetry, is far from certain.
Portrait of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, by Thomas Gainsborough, between 1785 and 1787. She stands with her body facing to her left, her face tilted towards the viewer, and her arms crossed, with one hand holding a pink rose. She wears a white gown with a high, ruffled neckline and lace detail around the cuffs, and a large, black, broad-brimmed hat. Her hair is pulled away from her face to flow down her back. Chatsworth.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Antonia Fraser
This book is character-driven in AF 's accustomed manner, featuring Whig reformers, Tory reactionaries, and those dubbed revolutionaries like Daniel O'Connell and William Cobbett . Its story opens in November 1831 with a famous pronouncement...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Fullerton
GF 's mother was born Lady Henrietta Elizabeth (Harriet or Harryo) Cavendish , daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire and of the writer and patron Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire . A shrewd and intelligent...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Fullerton
GF 's celebrated or notorious maternal grandmother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , died six years before her grand-daughter and namesake was born. Nevertheless, her reputation (as a beauty, a gambler, a scandalous woman, and a...
Publishing Catherine Gore
This novel was edited, with her initials, by Lady Charlotte Bury ; she disclaimed the political opinions of the narrator, or any first-hand knowledge of the material, since, she said, it dealt with a period...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Gore
Historical personages, from the Prince of Wales and his mistress Lady Jersey downwards, do appear in this book. It ends on the death of Charles James Fox , apostrophised as one of the great and...
Publishing Anne Grant
Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie , Felicia Hemans , Robert Southey , William Wordsworth , Lady Bessborough , her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , the minor poet Lady Dick , Elizabeth Hamilton
Textual Features Sarah Green
The novel itself has elements of a spoof on the gothic, a didactic courtship plot, a social satire of the dialogue kind associated with Elizabeth Hamilton and Thomas Love Peacock , a sentimental melodrama, a...
Publishing Martha Hale
Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)
Dedications Ann Hatton
The future AH published with her name (Ann Curtis, sister of Mrs. Siddons) Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, with a strong subscription list, dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire .
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
57 (1784): 314
Friends, Associates Caroline Herschel
Though CH recorded in summer 1774 that she had lost her only female acquaintance (apparently because her work for her brother left her no time for social life), she later met Charles and Frances Burney
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lucille Iremonger
Her opening chapter addresses her own experience, with heartfelt reminiscence about the impact of political campaigning on married life. She sets out to combat the view of the candidate's (later the member's) wife either as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
Textual Features Christian Isobel Johnstone
CIJ describes traditional Highland women's occupations such as waulking, or the manufacture of flax cloth. Throughout the novel she introduces, explains, and footnotes Gaelic customs (as Dorothea Primrose Campbell does Zetland ones). She also...
Publishing Isabella Kelly
Its title-page mentioned its dedication (with permission) to the Duchess of York . This dedication voices IK 's hopes of extricating her husband from distress as well as supporting her children. Its subscription list was...
Publishing Sophia King
SK 's subscribers included J. Fortnum , Esq. (perhaps her father-in-law), and many from the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her husband , the Duchess of Rutland , and Lord Melbourne (father-in-law of...

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