SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON
By Faith Cook
Banner of Truth. 478 pages. £19.95
ISBN 085151 812 5
A current best-selling biography is Amanda Foreman's Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which describes in lively detail the life of an 18th-century aristocrat caught up in pleasure and politics, and unable to resist the lure of gambling. Faith Cook's Selina provides a contrast - a godly woman from a similar social circle but concerned to use her energy, position and resources for God.
Chapels of the quaintly-named 'Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion' have now largely disappeared, as they have changed their designation, merged with other groups or closed, but there was once a considerable phalanx of them. Who was the mysterious Countess?
