Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… of the eighteenth-century’s most celebrated beauties embodied this physical description: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire . Exhibiting all the typical qualities of the period’s ideal beauty, she was often depicted with pale clear … figure, elegance, wit, sense, grace, expression, sensibility, and principles of twelve ladies, including the Duchess of Devonshire . Scored out of twenty, the Duchess received high marks for her beauty and figure, but scored only three for …
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