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A portrait of the eighteenth-century Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough, discusses her rigidly traditional upbringing, fashionable education, marriage to and divorce from Viscount Bolingbroke, illegitimate child, marriage to lover Topham Beauclerk, friendship with Horace Walpole, and artistic talents. 10,000 first printing.
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'If you liked Amanda Foreman's life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, you'll love this...' Mail on Sunday
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Carola Hicks studied Archaeology and History of Art at Edinburgh University and completed a Ph.D. on medieval art and iconography. Having taken up a research fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she went on to write her first book, Animals in Early Medieval Art. She later became Curator of the Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral, where she wrote Discovering Stained Glass. She now teaches art history to adult and undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge and is Director of Studies in History of Art at Newnham College as well as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She has two children and lives in Cambridge and London.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0312291574
- ISBN 13 9780312291570
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages404
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