An aristocratic affair : the life of Georgiana's sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough by Gleeson, Janet instant download
xiii, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm, \"The life of Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough, was one of both privilege and high scandal. The aristocracy of the eighteenth century were the A-list celebrities of the day and dominated the political, as well as social, world. Harriet was born into the wealth and eminence of the Spencer family - and was the great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. Following in the train of her sister, the charismatic Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, she became one of the most glamorous and influential women of the Regency age.\" \"At a time when marriage was an aristocratic woman's only career choice, Harriet made an excellent, though unhappy, match. She soon embarked on a series of illicit affairs, including one with the prominent playwright Richard Sheridan. In Naples she met and fell in love with Lord Granville Leveson Gower, a handsome young aristocrat twelve years her junior. And so began the affair that became one of the greatest love stories in the Regency period, ending only when Granville married Harriet's niece, Georgiana's daughter, taking into his care the two illegitimate children he had fathered with Harriet.\" \"Harriet's was a life intertwined with public scandal, royal intrigue and high political drama. She was petted and spoiled by Marie Antoinette; she witnessed the French Revolution and George III's madness. She quarrelled bitterly with Byron, when her daughter Caroline Lamb embarked on a scandalous affair with him; and travelled through war-torn Europe during the rise and fall of Napoleon. She survived her sister Georgiana by twenty years, living to see the Battle of Waterloo and the coronation of George IV. An Aristocratic Affair brings one of the Regency period's most colourful characters vividly to life.\"--BOOK JACKET, Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427) and index
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