An Evening with Historian and Journalist Catherine Ostler, Author of The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London

The Hudson Library & Historical Society will host a live virtual streaming event with historian and journalist Catherine Ostler, author of The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London. This book explores the remarkable life of the stylish and scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, a woman whose adventurous life during the sumptuous Georgian Era led to an infamous bigamy trial that was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence.