Excerpt from The Amazing Duchess, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Romantic History of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Maid of Honour, the Hon. Mrs. Hervey, Duchess of Kingston, and Countess of Bristol Thus wrote Thackeray of Beatrix Esmond, having in his mind the wayward, the puzzling, the elusive Elizabeth Chudleigh. One could wish that the great satirist of men and manners had, with the vivid pen which drew the terrible picture of a very different woman - one, indeed, quite unworthy of his genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.