![]() 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. Aristocrats is a thorough and engrossing exploration of 18th-century Britain. ![]() 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. 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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