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Georgiana On My Mind.(Georgiana Spencer)(Essay)

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| September 01, 2008 | Steiker, Valerie | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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