Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire Biography

Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire (née Elizabeth Christiana Hervey subsequently Lady Elizabeth Foster) (13 May 1759 – 30 March 1824) is best known as an early woman novelist and as the close friend of Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire. Elizabeth supplanted the Duchess gaining the Duke's affections and later marrying him.