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![]() ![]() She received her doctorate in 18th Century British History from Oxford University in 1998. In addition to her writing, Amanda's solo radio and documentary work includes Wellington’s Women (Channel Four), What is History? (BBC Radio 3), The Georgians (BBC Radio 4), and the BBC/Netflix series The Ascent of Woman.īorn in London, brought up in Los Angeles, and educated in England, Amanda attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York, and Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford. ![]() It was a runner-up for five further awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Prize, and was named one of the ten best books of 2011 by The New York Times. Similarly, A World on Fire was also a best-seller and won the Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War History. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1999, and inspired a television documentary, a radio play starring Dame Judi Dench, and the Oscar-winning film, The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, and Hayley Atwell. ![]() ![]() Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-winning bestsellers, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided. Amanda Foreman, as part of the Summer Series with Sotheby's.ĭr. The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) is pleased to announce a lecture with award-winning author Dr. ![]()
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