Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… high society, sociability and suicide. People > Aristocracy People > Fashion Mots-clés Correspondence Fashion Fiction Gambling Politics Suicide Georgiana Cavendish, the fifth Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), was the eldest daughter of … refused aid by his father, Lord Milton, Damer shot himself in an upstairs room in the Bedford Arms in Covent Garden. Gambling is portrayed as the root of all ills in The Sylph as it promotes a form of anti-social sociability, as the … the gambler as one who ‘would ruin his own brother, if it might be any advantage to himself’ and pronounced that gambling did not foster the rational tone of mutual improvement but instead produced ‘lies, oaths, […] the most bitter …
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