The US National Gallery of Art in Washington DC has a Thomas Gainsborough portrait of Georgiana. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – Amanda Foreman, published by Harper Collins, 1998, is a great biography of Georgiana Spencer. The film 2008 film The Duchess starring Keira Knightly as Georgiana, is based on this book.The New York Times considers the above film and compares Diana and Georgiana.

Sotheby’s have an article about Georgiana’s fashion influence including this gem, about her followers desperate to have ostrich feathers for their hairstyles: ‘Feathers were so scarce in England that fashionable women resorted to bribing undertakers for their horses’ plumage.’

Pen and Pension have a recipe for an 18th Century pomade (a greasy substance used to style hair) using lard. The Fashion Historian has several pictures of high 18th Century hairstyles – including one with a model ship.

Alamy has a cartoon of the Duchess of Devonshire kissing a voter, from a period newspaper. A Voice of Discontent: A Woman’s Journey Through the Long Eighteenth Century by Jennifer C. Kelsey, published by Troubadour 2008, discusses the prejudices women faced during that period. Regency History has an article about the general election of 1784, explaining the parties involved and the voting system of the time.