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She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York.
In 1993 she was awarded the Henrietta Jex Blake Senior Scholarship at Oxford University.
She received her doctorate in Eighteenth-Century British History from Oxford University in 1998.
She won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1999

Since the publication of "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire", Amanda Foreman has worked as a presenter on English television and radio. She also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire has already been the subject of a television documentary and a highly successful radio play, staring Dame Judi Dench.

Amanda is currently living in New York, at work on the subject of her new book: the British volunteers who fought in the American Civil War, 1861-1865.

Amanda Foreman is pictured above collecting the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award.

Bibliography

Mme de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
Introduction by Amanda Foreman
Published by New York Review of Books, 2001

Click here to read the introduction

Gender in Eighteenth Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities
Edited by H. Barker and E. Chalus.
Published by Addison-Wesley Pub Co. 1997