Download or read book The Bachelor Duke written by James Lees-Milne and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chatsworth Cookery Book written by Deborah and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eat like a Duchess and get to know more about one of England's great houses and the family who live there. Although she is the first to admit that she herself hasn't cooked for half a century, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire is deeply interested in good food. Chatsworth is renowned for its superb farm shop, its brilliant catering and by those lucky enough to have sampled it – the delectable product of this private kitchen.In this book, the Duchess has collected the recipes for dishes that she loves. They range from simple soups and suppers to sumptuous dinner, and include brunches and breads and some of the cakes, jams and marmalades that sell so successfully under the Duchess of Devonshire's own label. Each section – and many of the recipes – comes with a personal introduction from the Duchess in which she mixes history, observation and wit in the style that has gained her such a devoted following.
Download or read book Affair of State written by Henry Vane and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are given a fascinating insight into the last years of a social and political world that was shortly to fall into complete eclipse, within this first full-length biography of two of the age's most significant figures."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Chronicles of the Collegiate Church Or Free Chapel of All Saints Derby written by John Charles Cox and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sylph written by Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire) and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elizabeth Georgiana written by Caroline Chapman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recounts the story of one the most remarkable and enduring love triangle in history between the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (William and Georgiana Cavendish) and Lady Elizabeth Foster, nick-named Bess. The Duchess introduced the Duke to her best friend, the Lady Elizabeth (who later married the Duke), and lived in a triad with them for the next 25 years. Lady Elizabeth had two illegitimate children by the Duke, a son and a daughter.
Download or read book The Duke of Devonshire written by Henry Leach and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Spencer Compton written by Bernard Holland and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgiana written by Amanda Foreman and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its undisputed leader. Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774, at the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats, the Duke of Devonshire. Launched into a world of wealth and power, she quickly became the queen of fashionable society, adored by the Prince of Wales, a dear friend of Marie-Antoinette, and leader of the most important salon of her time. Not content with the role of society hostess, she used her connections to enter politics, eventually becoming more influential than most of the men who held office. Her good works and social exploits made her loved by the multitudes, but Georgiana's public success, like Diana's, concealed a personal life that was fraught with suffering. The Duke of Devonshire was unimpressed by his wife's legendary charms, preferring instead those of her closest friend, a woman with whom Georgiana herself was rumored to be on intimate terms. For over twenty years, the three lived together in a jealous and uneasy ménage à trois, during which time both women bore the Duke's children—as well as those of other men. Foreman's descriptions of Georgiana's uncontrollable gambling, all- night drinking, drug taking, and love affairs with the leading politicians of the day give us fascinating insight into the lives of the British aristocracy in the era of the madness of King George III, the American and French revolutions, and the defeat of Napoleon. A gifted young historian whom critics are already likening to Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman draws on a wealth of fresh research and writes colorfully and penetratingly about the fascinating Georgiana, whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.
Download or read book The Devonshires written by Roy Hattersley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, the Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives, The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made and lost fortunes, fought and fornicated, built great houses, patronised the arts and pioneered the railways, made great scientific discoveries, and, in the end, came to terms with changing times.
Download or read book The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire written by Joseph Grove and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Duchess of Devonshire s Ball written by Sophia Murphy and published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the fancy dress ball hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of the Sixth Duke of Devonshire written by Sir Augustus William James Clifford and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chatsworth Garden Diary written by Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diary is filled with wonderful images of the glorious landscape andarden at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, including parterres and vistas, water inll its forms, rockeries and trees, a productive kitchen garden and superbtaturary, as well as magnificent borders. Each photograph is captioned withhe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's lively and informative text. Each weekas a full-page colour photograph and the diary includes national andeligious holidays and astronomical information. Beautifully produced ineek-to-view format with a colour picture on every spread, it has a freshesign, generously laid out, with plenty of room to write. The Dowageruchess of Devonshire, widow of the 11th Duke, has known and loved Chatsworthor over half a century and probably knows it better than anyone else. She ishe youngest of the seven children of the second Lord Redesdale, and sisterf the writers Nancy and Jessica Mitford and Diana Mosley. She herself is theuthor of several books, which include the phenomenally successful "Countingy The Garden at Chatsworth".
Download or read book Chatsworth written by Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish Duke of Devonshire and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire highlight a few of their favourite treasures and aspects of Chatsworth that they live with every day.
Download or read book Everybody Was So Young written by Amanda Vaill and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: “A marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era (The New York Times Book Review). Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy—witty, urbane, and elusive—was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, the Murphys also counted among their friends John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Fernand Léger, Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter, and a host of others. Far more than mere patrons, they were kindred spirits whose sustaining friendship released creative energy. Yet none of the artists who used the Murphys for their models fully captured the real story of their lives: their Edith Wharton childhoods, their unexpected youthful romance, their ten-year secret courtship, their complex and enduring marriage—and the tragedy that struck them, when the world they had created seemed most perfect. Drawing on a wealth of family diaries, photographs, letters and other papers, as well as on archival research and interviews on two continents, this “brilliantly rendered biography” documents the pivotal role of the Murphys in the story of the Lost Generation (Los Angeles Times). “Often considered minor Lost Generation celebrities, the Murphys were in fact much more than legendary party givers. Vaill’s compelling biography unveils their role in the European avant-garde movement of the 1920s; Gerald was a serious modernist painter. But Vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time.” —Library Journal
Download or read book The Serpent and the Stag written by John Pearson and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
