Surname: Cavendish (née Spencer) Forename(s): Georgiana b. 7 June 1757. d. 30 March 1806. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and political hostess. Born in Wimbledon, Surrey to John Spencer, first Earl
Spencer and Margaret Georgiana Spencer (née Poyntz). Married William Cavendish, Duke
of Devonshire, in 1774. During the 1780s, actively supported the Whig Party. Published
The Sylph (1779), an anonymous novel about aristocratic life and The Passage of the Mountain St Gothard (1794), a poem about her experiences traveling Europe. Biographical information:
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