A World on Fire įoreman's most recent book, A World on Fire, a history of British-American relations in the American Civil War, was published in 2010 by Penguin in the UK on 30 June, and in 2011 by Random House in the US. The book has been the subject of a television documentary, a radio play starring Judi Dench, and a film, The Duchess, starring Ralph Fiennes and Keira Knightley. It was shortlisted for the 1998 Guardian First Book Award, and won the 1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography. Published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the US, the book was an international best-seller and reached number one in the UK as a hardback, paperback, and reissue nine years later. Career Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Īfter completing her DPhil, Foreman remained at Oxford as a researcher, and in 1998 she published her first book, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, based on her doctoral thesis. She received her doctorate from Oxford University in 18th Century British History. At Oxford, Foreman completed an MPhil thesis Politics or Providence?: Why the Houses of Parliament voted to abolish the slave trade in 1807 (1993) and a DPhil with her thesis The political life of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757–1806 (1998) which was then turned into her first biography. She was awarded a 1993 Henrietta Jex-Blake Senior Scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, then Columbia University, before returning to England in 1991. Education Īmanda Foreman was educated at Hanford School, a girls' junior independent school in southwest England, įollowed by various girls' boarding schools.
She has five children and is married to Jonathan Barton. Her brother, Jonathan Foreman, is an international correspondent and film critic.
Her father moved to England to work after being blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the McCarthyism of the 1950s. Her parents were Evelyn (Smith) and the screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman (1914–1984). Currently, she is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly 'Historically Speaking' and an Honorary Research Senior Fellow in the History Department at the University of Liverpool.įoreman was born in London. She also wrote and starred in a four-part documentary regarding the role of women in society, entitled The Ascent of Woman. Her books include Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, A World on Fire, and The World Made by Women. Amanda Lucy Foreman (born 1968) is a British/American biographer and historian.
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