William Cavendish, fifth Duke of Devonshire

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...

Lady Elizabeth Foster became the friend of the current Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana , and of the Duke ; very soon the three were inseparable.

Lady Elizabeth Foster (later Duchess of Devonshire) gave birth, in a boarding-house-cum-brothel in Vietri on the Gulf of Salerno, to a daughter by the Duke of Devonshire .

Lady Elizabeth Foster married her long-time lover, the Duke of Devonshire , three years after the death of his first wife, Georgiana , her intimate friend.

Widowed for the second time by the Duke of Devonshire 's death, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire , engaged in battles with his family for money, and revealed the paternity of her two children by him.

Bess attached herself sentimentally to both the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire . Georgiana loved her from the first; it is not clear exactly how soon the duke (known in this intimate circle as Canis...

During her first winter abroad rumours reached England that Bess had taken various lovers. She left again for the Continent only a few months after her return, apparently because she was pregnant with...

Georgiana Spencer married (in the parish church at Wimbledon near London, on her seventeenth birthday) the Duke of Devonshire .

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...

The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...

Lady Elizabeth Foster (later Duchess of Devonshire) went abroad for her health, taking with her as pupil the Duke of Devonshire 's illegitimate daughter Charlotte Williams.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , made a confession to her husband of debts to the value of almost £62,000; there were significant items missing from the list.