A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough

by Frances Harris

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was a woman with a "passion for government" a compulsion to wield power not only in her own family but in public affairs as well. The first complete scholarly biography of the Duchess, this book makes full use of recently available manuscript sources to tell the colorful story of a woman at the center of power, whose life spanned more than eighty years from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole. Harris sets Sarah's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198202245
• ISBN13: 9780198202240
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"