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Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker
Biographer Amanda Foreman revisits her fascinating subject as a big-screen adaptation starring Keira Knightley brings the 18th-century Duchess of Devonshire to life.
I was pregnant with twins when I heard that Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes were going to star in The Duchess, a film version of my biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The movie rights had sold as soon as the book hit the best-seller lists ten years ago. But then nothing happened for a long time. As with those annoying slide puzzles that orthodontists hand out to children, the pieces just wouldn't come together.
But last year by some ...