Amanda Foreman Articles

Amanda Foreman has written articles for various publications around the world. The following are a selection:

2008

Evening Standard: September 2008
You shall go to the ball
How does a historian and mother of five square up to Keira Knightley on the red carpet? Amanda Foreman, author of the book on which the film is based, turns to ES to help her find a gown fit for The Duchess..........................
The Times: August 2008
How do you solve a problem like Georgiana?
I did not know anything in my twenties. I don’t mean I was stupid or ignorant. I simply knew nothing of the world. My contemporaries were climbing the job ladder and buying houses. I, on the other hand, was reading about a.........................
Vogue: September 2008
Up Front
I was pregnant with twins when I heard that Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes were going to star in ‘The Duchess’, a film version of my biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The movie rights had sold as soon as the book hit the best-seller lists. But then nothing happened for a long time. Like those annoying slide puzzles that orthodontists hand out to children.........................
National Trust: August 2008
Filming ‘The Duchess’ at Kedleston Hall
A personal account by Amanda Foreman
It was not that I lacked faith in the producers’ talents. But as the years passed and the promised film version of ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire’, never materialized, I just assumed that my book would always remain a book. Anyway, it seemed churlish to complain since Radio 4 had already produced a wonderful 14-part drama about Georgiana, staring Judi Dench, Maggie Steed and Juliet Aubrey.........................
Evening Standard: July 2008
A Londoner's Diary
I flew into London from New York last week, where I have been living for the past few years, to discover from The Guardian that I was guilty of a capital offence. The normally sane and sage Kathryn Hughes had declared that she had found the murdered body of Biography behind a pile of books in the library. Furthermore, she knew who the killer was – namely me. She even had the photographs to prove it. The Sunday Times launched its own investigation into this vexing mystery, wanting to know.........................

Articles from Previous Years

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