

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.
