Caroline Lennox’s son Charles James Fox became the most celebrated and dangerous politician of his day. They were powerful, wealthy, privileged and radical, lived close to the seat of government, and left behind them a thrilling legacy of letters, diaries, pictures and even autopsy reports, which in the hands of Stella Tillyard has produced a history of the Georgian period as exciting as any novel.Īristocrats is a thorough and engrossing exploration of 18th-century Britain. Four great-grand-daughters of Charles II, Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox flourished in an era that encompassed the French Revolution, rebellion in Ireland and the American War of Independence.
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