Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… family. Several observers thought the lively and intelligent Cavendish and the uncommunicative and emotionally inexpressive Duke of Devonshire ill matched. None the less both parties remained set on the union, the anticipation of which … think how much I am tired sometimes with the dissipation I live in’. 2 These feelings of dissatisfaction found full expression a year later. In 1779 Cavendish anonymously published The Sylph , an epistolary novel that owes a debt to … foster the rational tone of mutual improvement but instead produced ‘lies, oaths, […] the most bitter and opprobrious expressions […] envy, dissimulation, malice and revenge’. 4 To gamble meant to be isolated whilst in company and to ignore …
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