Improper Pursuits: The Scandalous Life of Lady Di Beauclerk - Rilegato

Hicks, Carola

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ISBN 10: 033378068X ISBN 13: 9780333780688

Casa editrice: Macmillan, 2001

Riassunto

In the style of Amanda Foreman's Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, here is a passionate tale of an 18th-century artist's scandalous life. Lady Diana Spencer was born in 1735, the eldest child of the third Duke of Marlborough. She was expected to follow a traditional path through life: educated in the fashion considered suitable for a girl, and married to a man of the appropriate rank for a duke's daughter. However, Lady Di overturned convention. She left her husband, pursued a secret relationship with Topham Beauclerk, hid the birth of an illegitimate child, was divorced, remarried and eventually had to earn her living by painting. Lady Di became a highly gifted artist who painted portraits, illustrated books and plays, provided designs for Wedgewood's innovative pottery and decorated rooms with murals. Carola Hicks provides a account of her life and the world she inhabited. She sheds light on the whole artistic life of the 18th century and the dramatic consequences of the transgressing of boundaries.

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Book by CAROLA HICKS

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• Editore: Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 033378068X
• ISBN 13: 9780333780688
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416