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Amanda Foreman
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January 01, 1968
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| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
London, The United Kingdom |
| website |
http://www.amanda-foreman.com/ |
| genre |
History, Biographies & Memoirs
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about this author
Amanda Lucy Foreman is a British/American biographer. At Oxford University she 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).
After having completed her university education, Foreman remained at Oxford as a researcher, and in 1998, she published her first book, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, based on her doctoral thesis. Published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the U.S., the book received wide critical acclaim and won the 1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography. The book has been the subject of a television documentary, a highly successful radio play, starring Judi Dench, and a film, The Duchess, starring Ralph Fiennes and Keira Knightley.
Her history of British volunteers in the American Civil War, A World on Fire was published in 2010.
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