Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… explores the relationship between high society, sociability and suicide. People > Aristocracy People > Fashion Keywords Correspondence Fashion Fiction Gambling Politics Suicide Georgiana Cavendish, the fifth Duchess of Devonshire … the ‘bon ton’. 1 . Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory, Wednesday 1st February, 1775, The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. W.S Lewis, 48 volumes (1937-1983), vol. 32, p. 232. Cavendish became the figurehead of the … Further Reading Bessborough, Earl of (ed.), Georgiana: Extracts from the Correspondence of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (London: John Murray, 1955). Wetherall Dickson, Leigh, ‘Fashion …
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