uprysing: History meme: (4/6) Women ➝ “Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire” The D
uprysing:History meme: (4/6) Women ➝ “Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire” The Duchess of Devonshire was a celebrated beauty and socialite who gathered around her a large salon of literary and political figures. She was also an active political campaigner in an age when women’s suffrage was still over a century away. The Duchess of Devonshire is famous not only for her marital arrangements, her catastrophic affairs, her beauty and sense of style and best clothes, and her political campaigning, but also for her love of gambling. -- source link
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