In the room devoted to the archives of Lucian Freud in London’s National Portrait ... But perhaps more than any other book, “The Last of the Duchess,” a strange jewel of a text she began ...

Riveting, fact-based historical drama of passion and power chronicling the influential and scandalous exploits of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley) in 18th-century ...