![]() ![]() ![]() Through all such tribulations the sisters were kept going by letters and by each other. Scandal and tragedy were never far away: Sarah, whose Napier sons distinguished themselves in the Peninsular War, left her husband for another man one of Emily’s sons joined the Irish rebellion and died of septicaemia in Dublin Castle jail. Louisa and Emily married into grand Irish families and became caught up in the deepening political and economic crisis. 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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