Foreman’s book shows a varied complicated woman coerced into an unhappy marriage, and looking for independence and real role in the public world. What happened was Foreman came out publicly with a sort of back-handed repudiation of her interpretation of Georgiana’s complex character in her excellent book. The film stars the latest sexualized anorexia icon, Keira Knightley, and sensitive addition to the brotherly-male helper archetype-actors, Ralph Fiennes (director, Saul Dibb, writers, Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jenson-all men). We had quite a thread on Amanda Foreman’s book, originally titled Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, on Eighteenth Century Worlds at Yahoo it was prompted by Foreman’s published responses to the new costume drama said to be adapted from her book, The Duchess. I just read Diana Birchall’s blog on her (frustrating?) interview with Amanda Foreman (“Debriefing the Duchess”), and was most amused by the quotation from Emma: “I was pleased with my own perseverance in asking questions, and amused to think how little information I obtained.” (Emma) Joshua Reynolds, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1774) _The Duchess_ was a writing and reading girl too
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