A reading list on Chatsworth and the Cavendish Family
This list has been compiled to help anyone who is seeking further information on Chatsworth and the Cavendish family. Please note that many of the books and articles in the list are no longer in print. Chatsworth is unable to lend copies or help in the search for out-of-print publications. The lists are in chronological order, by date of first publication. Also some of the most recent and important books on Chatsworth the family and other historical figures associated with the estate are available online.
Articles or books on Chatsworth
GLOVER, Stephen
The Peak Guide. Derby: Henry Mozley, 1830.(Chatsworth: pp. 17-52)
ADAM, W
The gem of the Peak. London: Longman, 1838. (Chatsworth pp. 75-109)
DEVONSHIRE, 6th Duke of
Handbook of Chatsworth and Hardwick. London: Privately printed, 1844. (See also Duchess of Devonshire: The House, below)
JEWITT, Llewellyn
Chatsworth. Buxton: J C Bates, 1872.
FIENNES, Celia
Through England on a side saddle in the Time of William and Mary. London: Field & Tuer, 1888. (New illustrated edition, Macdonald, 1982). (Chatsworth: pp. 78-81)
TIPPING, H
Avray. Four numbers of ‘Country Life’ containing the History of Chatsworth. (5, 12, 19 & 26 Jan 1918)
THOMPSON, Francis
A History of Chatsworth: being a supplement to the Sixth Duke of Devonshire’s Handbook. London: Country Life, 1949.
THOMPSON, Francis
Chatsworth: a short history. London: Country Life, 1951.
LEES-MILNE, James & CORNFORTH, John
Chatsworth: home of the Dukes of Devonshire. (9 articles in.‘Country Life’, 11, 18 & 25 April, 2 May, 18 & 25 July, 1 & 29 August, 5 September 1968)
GIROUARD, Mark
Elizabethan Chatsworth. ‘Country Life’ 22 Nov 1973, pp 1668-72.
ORGEL, Stephen & STRONG, Roy
Inigo Jones:The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols., London, Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications Ltd; Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1973
PEVSNER, Nikolaus
The Buildings of England: Derbyshire. 2nd ed. Penguin, 1978 (Chatsworth: pp. 126-139).
DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
The House: a portrait of Chatsworth. Macmillan, 1982. (Incorporates passages from the 6th Duke of Devonshire’s Handbook, above) Paperback 1992.
CHATSWORTH
The home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. (The current illustrated guide to the House).
CHATSWORTH GARDEN
(The current illustrated guide to the Garden)
JAFFÉ, Michael
The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings, A Complete Catalogue, 4 vols. Phaidon Press, 1994.
BRIGHTON, Trevor
Chatsworth’s 16th Century Parks and Gardens. ‘Garden History’, vol. 23 no. 1 (summer 1995) pp. 29-55.
CHATSWORTH
A handlist of paintings and sculpture. (A guide to those seen on the Public Route).
DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
The Estate: a view from Chatsworth. Macmillan 1990.Paperback 1994
DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
Treasures of Chatsworth: a private view. Constable 1991.
DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
Farm Animals: based on the Farmyard at Chatsworth. (For children) Kyle Cathie 1991.
BOSCHUNG, Dietrich
Von Hesberg, Henner & Linfert, Andreas: Die antiken Skulpturen in Chatsworth, Mainz am Rhein, Verlag Philipp von Zabern,1997
DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
The Garden at Chatsworth. Francis Lincoln 1999. Paperback 2001.
DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
Chatsworth The House. Frances Lincoln 2002.
JAFFÉ, Michael
The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings, A Complete Catalogue, 5 vols. Umberto Allemandi, 2002.
DOWAGER DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE
Round about Chatsworth, Frances Lincoln, 2005.
BARNETT & WILLIAMSON, John & Tom
Chatsworth: A Landscape History, Windgather Press, 2005.
NAYLOR, Diane
The Chatsworth Villages: Beeley, Edensor & Pilsley, Landmark Publishing, 2005.
Articles or books on the Cavendish Family
KENNET, White
Memoirs of the Family of Cavendish. London: 1708
COLLINS, Arthur
Memoirs of the noble family of Cavendish, Dukes of Devonshire. London: 1741.
GROVE, Joseph
The lives of all the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire. London: 1764.
BICKLEY, Francis
The Cavendish Family. London: Constable, 1911.
STOKES, Hugh
The Devonshire House Circle. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1917
CANNADINE, David
The Landowner as millionaire: the finances of the Dukes of Devonshire c. 1800 -
c 1926. Agricultural History Review, 1977, pp. 77-97 (Reprinted in: CANNADINE,
D. Aspects of Aristocracy, Yale, 1994; Penguin, 1995).
CANNADINE, David
Lords and Landlords; the aristocracy and the towns, 1774-1967 Leicester:
Leicester University Press, 1980. (The Devonshire family and Eastbourne: pp. 229-388).
TREASURES from Chatsworth
The Devonshire Inheritance. Washington: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1979. (Contains much biographical material). Exhibition catalogue.
PEARSON, John
Stags and Serpents: the story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire. Macmillan, 1983. Revised paperback edition 2002.
BARKER, Nicolas, and others
The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth. USA:
Art Services International, 2003. Exhibition Catalogue; also contains much biographical material.
DURANT, David N.
Bess of Hardwick: portrait of an Elizabethan dynast. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977 (Reprinted P. Owen Ltd. 1999)
PLOWDEN, Alison
Mistress of Hardwick. London: BBC, 1972.
RAWSON, M. S
Bess of Hardwick and her circle. London: Hutchinson, 1912.
LOVELL, Mary S
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, Little, Brown, 2005
WILLIAMS, E. C
Bess of Hardwick. London: Longmans, 1959.
BRADLEY, E. T
Life of Arbella Stuart. 2 vols. London: Bentley, 1889.
DURANT, David N
Arbella Stuart. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978.
GRISTWOOD, Sarah
Arbella England’s Lost Queen. Bantam Press, 2003. Paperback 2004
KENNET, White
A sermon preach’d at the funeral of the Right Noble William Duke of Devonshire ... with some memoirs of the family of Cavendish. London: 1708.
WILSON, G
The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish. London: Cavendish Society, 1851.
MAXWELL, J. C.
(Editor)
The scientific papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1921.
BERRY, A. J
Henry Cavendish: his life and scientific work. London: Hutchinson, 1960.
JUNGNICKEL, Christine & McCORMMACH, Russell
Cavendish: The Experimental Life. Bucknell: Pennsylvania, 1999; revised ed. 2001 (Deals with Henry Cavendish the scientist and his father Lord Charles Cavendish.)
BROWN, P D and SCHWEIZER, K
(Editors)
The Devonshire Diary: William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire, Memoranda on State of Affairs 1759-1762, London: Royal Historical Society, 1982.
ADAIR, R
Sketch of the character of the late Duke of Devonshire. London, 1811. (5th Duke).
BESSBOROUGH, Earl of
Georgiana. Extracts from the correspondence of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. London: John Murray, 1955.
FOSTER, Vere
(Editor)
The two Duchesses. London: Blackie, 1898
LEVESON GOWER, Iris
The face without a frown: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. London: Muller, 1944.
CALDER- MARSHALL A
The two Duchesses. London: Hutchinson, 1978.
MASTERS, Brian
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Hamish Hamilton, 1981. Reprinted by Allison & Busby, 1997.
FOREMAN, Amanda
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998. Paperback 1999
FOREMAN, Amanda
Georgiana’s World, The Illustrated Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, HarperCollins, 2001
Gleeson, Janet
An Aristocratic Affair; The life of Georgiana's sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough, London, Bantam Press, 2006
Charles, Earl SPENCER
The Spencer Family. Viking, 1999 (Chapter on Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire pp. 135-154)
FOSTER, E
Children of the mist: a true and informal account of an eighteenth-century scandal. London: Hutchinson, 1960. (Deals mainly with Lady Elizabeth Foster).
STUART, D. M
Dearest Bess: the life and times of Lady Elizabeth Foster afterwards Duchess of Devonshire. London: Methuen, 1955.
CHAPMAN, Caroline & DORMER, Jane
Elizabeth & Georgiana. The Duke of Devonshire and his two Duchesses. London: John Murray, 2002. Paperback 2003.
NORMINGTON, Susan
Lady Caroline Lamb: This Infernal Woman. London: House of Stratus, 2001.
A.W.C.
A sketch of the life of the sixth Duke of Devonshire. 2nd ed. London: Privately printed, 1864.
MARKHAM, Violet
Paxton and the Bachelor Duke. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. (6th Duke).
LEES-MILNE, James
The Bachelor Duke: William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858. John Murray, 1991.
HOLLAND, B
The life of Spencer Compton, 8th Duke of Devonshire. 2 vols. London: Longmans, 1911.
LEACH, H
The Duke of Devonshire - a personal and political biography. London: Methuen, 1904. (8th Duke).
VANE, Henry
Affair of State: A biography of the 8th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, London, Peter Owen, 2004.
JACKSON, Patrick
The Last of the Whigs: A Political Biography of Lord Hartington, later Eighth Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908). Associated University Presses, 1994.
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE
Park Top, A Romance of the Turf. London: London Magazine Editions, 1976; paperback John Murray, 2000.
ANDREW DEVONSHIRE
Accidents of Fortune, Michael Russell Publishing, 2004
MARKHAM, Violet
Paxton and the Bachelor Duke. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935.
CHADWICK, G. F
The Works of Sir Joseph Paxton, 1803-1865. London: The Architectural Press, 1961.
The Builder
Vol. XXIII, 1865, pp. 421-3 and 442-4. (An obituary and account of Paxton’s works).
The Times
9 June 1865. (Obituary).
Journal of Horticulture
New Series, Vol. VIII, 1865, pp. 446-449. (Obituary and Summary of speeches).
The Gardener’s Chronicle
1865, p. 554 (Obituary)
DONNER, P. F. R
Edensor, or Brown comes true. Architectural Review, 95. pp. 39-43, 1944.
CHADWICK, G F
Paxton and the Great Stove. Architectural History, 1961. 4, pp. 77-92.
HOBHOUSE, C
1851 and the Crystal Palace. 2nd ed. London: John Murray, 1950.
FFRENCH, Y
The Great Exhibition, 1851. London: 1950.
GIBBS-SMITH, C. H
The Great Exhibition of 1851: a commemorative album. London: HMSO, 1950. (There are many other works on the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition)
COLQUHOUN, Kate
A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton: Paperback, Harper Perennial, 2004. London and New York: Fourth Estate, 2003.
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