Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana's (Duchess of Devonshire) extraordinary life has now been made into a major film - starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes - which is due for release in summer 2008
Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her ow...