Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… of Devonshire captivated late eighteenth-century society with her youth, charm and high rank. Her epistolary novel The Sylph explores the relationship between high society, sociability and suicide. People > Aristocracy People > Fashion … 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 Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778); Burney was initially thought to have been the author. The Sylph tells of an ingénue’s entry into high society as the newly acquired bride of notorious rake, Sir William Stanley. …
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