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Georgina Lowe is a British film and television producer, who has produced director Mike Leigh's films since 2009. Among her TV Producer credits are the BBC miniseries Tipping the Velvet (2002), Fingersmith (2005), the ITV1 series Kingdom (2007–2009) and the Agatha Christie series Partners in Crime (2015).
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The Duchess was born Miss Georgiana Spencer, on 7 June 1757, as the first child of John Spencer (later Earl Spencer) and his wife, Georgiana (née Poyntz, later Countess Spencer), at the Spencer family home, Althorp. After her daughter's birth, her mother Lady Spencer wrote that "I will own I feel so partial to my Dear little Gee, that I think I nev...
On her seventeenth birthday, 7 June 1774, Lady Georgiana Spencer was married to society's most eligible bachelor, William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who was nine years her senior. The wedding took place at Wimbledon Parish Church. It was a small ceremony attended only by her parents, her paternal grandmother Lady Cowper, one of her pros...
Georgiana was charismatic, generous, good-humored, and intelligent. Kindhearted, Georgiana instinctively wanted to help others and from a young age, happily gave her money to poor children or to her desperate friends. Lady Charlotte Bury wrote of Georgiana's generosity: "when some individual came to her in pecuniary distress, she would always relie...
With her renowned unconventional beauty and kind character, and her marriage to the affluent and powerful Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess of Devonshire enjoyed preeminence in society. She was a high emblem of the era. Georgiana was arguably the Diana, Princess of Wales of her time; her popularity with the press and public can be compared to what he...
Her absence from English society and exile in France had isolated Georgiana and was a low point for her in every respect; she returned to England, a "changed woman". The Duke began suffering from gout, and she spent her time at his side nursing him. Along with a recent miscarriage, this circumstance with her husband brought about a softening and cl...
The legacy of the life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire has remained a topic of study and intrigue in cultural and historical spheres centuries after her death. Immediately after her death, the Duke of Devonshire discovered the extent of her debts. He soon enough married Lady Elizabeth Foster, who became Duchess of Devonshire as his se...
Emma; Or, The Unfortunate Attachment: A Sentimental Novel (1773, OCLC 940865941)The Duchess of Devonshire by Lady Diana Beauclerk, c. 1779The Duchess of Devonshire by John Downman, c. 1780The Duchess of Devonshire by Joshua Reynolds, c. 1780–81The Duchess of Devonshire by Joshua Reynolds, 1786Works by Georgiana Cavendish at Project GutenbergWorks by or about Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire at Internet ArchiveWorks by Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire at LibriVox(public domain audiobooks)Producer Georgina Lowe, British director Mike Leigh, British actress Marion Bailey, British actor Timothy Spall, British actress Dorothy Atkinson and British cinematographer Dick Pope arrive for the...
Population (2024 est.) 3,809,000. © Anna21/Shutterstock.com. © Gyorgy Lajos—Camera Press/Globe Photos. Georgia is mostly mountainous, with many peaks exceeding heights of 15,000 feet (4,500 meters). Forest or brush covers more than a third of the land. The fertile plain of the Kolkhida Lowland lies in the west, near the Black Sea coast.
