Duchess Sarah: Being the Social History of the Times of Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, with Glimpses of Her Life & Anecdotes of Her Contemporaries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 400 pages |
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