Historical connections pop up in weird places. The other night I indulged in a repeat viewing of The Duchess, an eighteenth-century romantic biopic about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
I made a point of seeing The Duchess when it hit theaters last year, for three reasons. First, it’s based on Amanda Foreman’s bestselling biography of Georgiana. This is one [...]
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General Grey makes a cameo
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