georgiana duchess of devonshire by amanda foreman

Career Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Īfter completing her DPhil, Foreman remained at Oxford as a researcher, and in 1998 she published her first book, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, based on her doctoral thesis. She received her doctorate from Oxford University in 18th Century British History. At Oxford, Foreman completed an MPhil thesis Politics or Providence?: Why the Houses of Parliament voted to abolish the slave trade in 1807 (1993) and a DPhil with her thesis The political life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757–1806 (1998) which was then turned into her first biography. She was awarded a 1993 Henrietta Jex-Blake Senior Scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, then Columbia University, before returning to England in 1991.

Education Īmanda Foreman was educated at Hanford School, a girls' junior independent school in southwest England, įollowed by various girls' boarding schools. She has five children and is married to Jonathan Barton. Her brother, Jonathan Foreman, is an international correspondent and film critic. Her father moved to England to work after being blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the McCarthyism of the 1950s. Her parents were Evelyn (Smith) and the screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman (1914–1984).

Currently, she is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly 'Historically Speaking' and an Honorary Research Senior Fellow in the History Department at the University of Liverpool.įoreman was born in London. She also wrote and starred in a four-part documentary regarding the role of women in society, entitled The Ascent of Woman. Her books include Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, A World on Fire, and The World Made by Women. Amanda Lucy Foreman (born 1968) is a British/American biographer and historian.

Georgiana duchess of devonshire by amanda foreman