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Spencer Love Affair - Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace (Hardcover)
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Spencer Love Affair - Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace (Hardcover)
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A Spencer Love Affair is the true story of the love affair and
marriage between the 4th Duke of Marlborough's favourite daughter
Lady Charlotte Spencer and an Oxford Vicar, the Reverend Edward
Nares. After their marriage in 1795 Lady Charlotte was banished
from Blenheim Palace by her parents, never to return home. The
affair stemmed from their acting together in the private
theatricals performed at Blenheim's newly-created private theatre
during 1785-1789, the year of the French Revolution. The fashion
for creating private theatres originated in France with Voltaire.
In England it became fashionable amongst the aristocracy, gentry
and clergy in the second half of the eighteen century. This
included the Austen family at Steventon Vicarage where Jane
Austen's family created their own private theatre, not in a palace
but a barn. Later in life, Jane Austen was to include her childhood
memories of these theatricals in her novel Mansfield Park. It was
as Austen described, that these private theatricals led to
dangerous intimacies amongst the actors, and this certainly seems
to have been the case in the love affair between Revd. Edward Nares
and Lady Charlotte Spencer.
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