Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… made me like everything’, she wrote ‘But my heart now feels an emptiness in the beau monde which cannot be filled […] nobody can think how much I am tired sometimes with the dissipation I live in’. 2 These feelings of dissatisfaction found … escape from the advice and ‘improving conversation’ that seeks to mould her into a fashionably contorted shape in both body and morality, though Cavendish can only allude to this pleasurable aspect because of her own accumulating gambling …
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