Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire

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Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , best-known as an aristocrat of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who made herself a centre of sexual scandal, also published her own travel-book, and left rich unpublished diaries and letters, some of which have appeared in print since her death.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Hervey
  • Nicknames: Bess; Bess
  • Married: Foster; CavendishDuchess of Devonshire
  • Styled: Lady Elizabeth
    The courtesy title of Lady (Lady Elizabeth), given to her as an earl's daughter, did not become hers until her father inherited his earldom, after her first marriage.
  • Titled: CavendishDuchess of Devonshire
Photo of a portrait at Chatsworth of Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1787 (while she was Lady Elizabeth Foster, during her first marriage). She is shown from the waist up, at a slight three quarter turn. She is wearing a high-waisted lacy white dress with large, billowing collar and a dark green sash. Her is fashionably frizzed and lightly powdered to produce a dark grey colour.

Milestones

November 1757

Elizabeth Hervey, later Duchess of Devonshire , was born at Horrenger in Suffolk, her parents' second daughter in a family of three children .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1816

Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire re-issued her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 's The Passage of the Mountain of Saint Gothard at Paris with her own Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland.
Bess's work Sketch sometimes been identified with Sketch of a Descriptive Journey through Switzerland or Sketch of a Description of a Journey through Switzerland which both the British Library and the Bodleian attribute to Rowley Lascelles , and which was reprinted at Bern in 1816, also together with Georgiana's poem.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

30 March 1824

Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire , died in Rome, eighteen years precisely after the death of her predecessor Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Biography

Birth and Influences

November 1757

Elizabeth Hervey, later Duchess of Devonshire , was born at Horrenger in Suffolk, her parents' second daughter in a family of three children .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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