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… for themselves or their clients. Important political hostesses, such as Mary, Lady Hervey (1700–68), or Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), used their social skills to political effect. Lady Hervey’s famous dinners for select … of one faction greeting the entrance of those from the other with distinctly unladylike hooting and groaning, 6 and the duchess of Gordon, a strong supporter of Pitt, using distinctly unladylike language to the prince himself at a ball: ‘The …
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