AOL Moviefone has the exclusive teaser trailer for The Duchess, the Paramount Vantage period drama based on Amanda Foreman’s bestselling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.
You can watch the trailer here after the jump, or view it in HD formats at AOL.
The film stars Keira Knightley as the scandalous 18th-century title character, who falls for a young politician (Dominic Cooper) while in an an unhappy marriage to the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes).
The Duchess, directed by Saul Dibb, is scheduled for theatrical release in the Fall of 2008.
you can also read any of Georgette Heyers’ last nine Regency romances (yeah I know, so sue me) to get a feel for the morès and speech patterns of an era very close––about a decade or so–– to the actual time period.
Whatever you may think of regency novels, they were invented by GH, who set a standard no bodice ripper writer (and many of them are my friends) has met, or even tried to meet.
Her personal Library consisted of over one thousand books from the period, in addition to an extensive collections of periodicals from the era. Her research was so thorough that her descriptions of the Battles of Quatre Bras (16 June), Ligny (16 June), Waterloo (18 June), and Wavre (18 June-19 June) in her novel
“An Infamous Army” is/was actually used at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, as educational material.
Anyway, can I get dibs on this one? I am familiar with the era and some of the characters of the time, including the Duchess…
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AOL Moviefone has the exclusive teaser trailer for The Duchess, the Paramount Vantage period drama based on Amanda Foreman’s bestselling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. 
guess kiera has found her niche.
you can also read any of Georgette Heyers’ last nine Regency romances (yeah I know, so sue me) to get a feel for the morès and speech patterns of an era very close––about a decade or so–– to the actual time period.
Whatever you may think of regency novels, they were invented by GH, who set a standard no bodice ripper writer (and many of them are my friends) has met, or even tried to meet.
Her personal Library consisted of over one thousand books from the period, in addition to an extensive collections of periodicals from the era. Her research was so thorough that her descriptions of the Battles of Quatre Bras (16 June), Ligny (16 June), Waterloo (18 June), and Wavre (18 June-19 June) in her novel
“An Infamous Army” is/was actually used at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS), commonly known simply as Sandhurst, as educational material.
Anyway, can I get dibs on this one? I am familiar with the era and some of the characters of the time, including the Duchess…
Sara, as I was reading your comments, I was thinking to myself, “Good, she’s got dibs on this then.” Ha! So, there you go. It’s all yours.