... tawdry-- no, they give instance of social genius, gaiety, elegance, wit or grace. One such group is that brilliant coterie, the Whig aristocracy of the late eighteenth century, which had as its centre Devonshire House, and as its magnet the woman who there ...

... same triangle, inside the same circle the triangle being the Devonshire House menage a trois, the circle being the brilliant Whig aristocracy which (in the late eighteenth century) surrounded it. We have the fifth Duke, his high-spirited Duchess, and the ...

... found it when I entered. A delightful book which takes us intimately into late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Whig society and of the days of Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington and the Prince Regent is Dorothy Margaret Stuart's Dearest Bess (Methuen ...