William George Spencer Cavendish sixth Duke of Devonshire

Georgiana's son and heir had her body brought back to England for burial with the rest of the family.

Banned for the licensed theatres, the play was accepted for the Victoria Theatre, on the south bank of the Thames, outside the Lord Chamberlain's jurisdiction. MRM worked immensely hard over the production: it was, she...

She was working on the research for this novel before she married; the work was interrupted by her father's death in May 1812. After it she wrote: He was the object for which I laboured...

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , bore the son and heir she had so long desired—in melodramatic circumstances, at Passy just outside revolutionary Paris.

Among her cousins both legitimate and illegitimate, she was closest to the son of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire: the Marquess of Hartington , known as Hart, who later succeeded as the sixth duke. From...

Before publication, the Duke of Devonshire feared that the letters themselves would have not enough to interest the public without MB 's editorial contribution. John Whishaw , whom she more than once consulted, saw their...

Cushman and MH rehearsed together at the Duke of Devonshire 's estate in Yorkshire in preparation for MH 's debut.

Like her birth family, LCL strongly supported a Whig and reformist political agenda. She told her cousin Lord Hartington , I have read Mary WollstonecraftRights of Woman, am become a convert. She also...

The text is accompanied by engravings done by LSC from portraits in the Duke of Devonshire 's collection. All four volumes were reissued by Cambridge University Press in 2010, online and in print-on-demand format.

She had been invited to edit and publish these letters by their current owner, the Duke of Devonshire (to whose sisters she was particularly close). At first this work made an intellectual occupation for her...

Colman observed unctuously that the story was impossible for the stage, the historical facts carrying a sort of fatal morbidity. He pointed out that the theatres which were darkened annually on the anniversary of this...