Provides a dramatic portrait of the colorful life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer, her roles as a society and political hostess, and her disastrous and profligate private life. Originally published as Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire. Reprint. (A Paramount/Vantage film, directed by Saul Dibb, written by Jeffrey Hatcher & Anders Thomas Jensen, releasing September 2008, starring Kiera Knightley & Ralph Fiennes) (Biography & Autobiography)