Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… fifth Duchess 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 … 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 … fifth Duchess 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. … Bessborough, Earl …
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