BLESSINGTON, MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF

1789–1849, English author and famous beauty, b. Ireland. At the age of 14 she was forced by her father into marriage with Capt. Maurice St. Leger Farmer, a sadist who abused her. She soon left him and after his death married (1818) the earl of Blessington. In 1822 she began a liaison with Count D'Orsay (husband of her stepdaughter), and with him, after Blessington's death, set up a brilliant salon at Gore House, Kensington. To meet expenses she wrote a number of popular novels. Her most successful work, however, is her graphic journal of her Conversations with Lord Byron (1834).

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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington - Vol. 1
Book by R. R. Madden; Harper & Brothers, 1855
Subjects: Blessington, Marguerite--Countess Of--1789-1849
...acquainted with the late Countess of Blessington in Naples, upward...Power.--Marriage of Marguerite Power.--Captain...FROM A MEMOIR OF THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON BY MISS POWER, WITH...OF THIS WORK. " Marguerite Blessington was the...
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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington - Vol. 2
Book by Richard Robert Madden; Harper, 1855
Subjects: Blessington, Marguerite--Countess Of--1789-1849
...centre, and a Marguerite and a pense...remind you of one who thinks...him. M. Blessington." To Madame...as does Marguerite, and praying...devouee, M. Blessington. "P. S...likelihood of Prince Montforts...lady the Countess of Blessington, which may...
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Landor, a Replevin
Book by Malcolm Elwin; MacDonald, 1958
Subjects: Drama, Landor, Walter Savage--1775-1864
...240 Landors Wife and Two Elder Children 273 The Countess of Blessington 288 Rose Paynter 352 Julius Charles Hare...
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Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
Book by Paul Schlicke; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Encyclopedias, Fiction, Novelists, English--19th Century--Biography
...a wisecracking periodical, Frasers Magazine , and of the brilliant social circles that gathered around the Countess of Blessington and Lord and Lady Holland. An elegant dandy with easy manners and genuine charm, Ainsworth became the literary...
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Everyone in Dickens - Vol. 3
Book by George Newlin; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Characters, Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Plots
...Co., New York, 1906 ? by permission of Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection...Westport, Connecticut London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-SYSTEMation Data...Newlin All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process...
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Locating Byron: Languages, Voices, and Displaced Utterances
Journal article by Diego Saglia; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 86, 2007
...Magazine between July 1832 and December 1833, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington famously described Byron as "a perfect chameleon...HVS, are in brackets after the text. (4) Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, A Journal of the Conversations of Lord...
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Byron, Catholicism, and Don Juan XVII
Journal article by David E. Goldweber; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 49, 1997
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon, Lord--Religion, Catholic Church--Influence, Christianity and literature--Analysis, English poetry--Religious aspects
...Cited Beatty, Bernard. Byrons Don Juan. Totowa: Barnes and Noble, 1985. Blessington, Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner. Lady Blessingtons Conversations of Lord Byron. Ed. Ernest J. Lovell, Jr. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1969. Brewer, William...


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The Death of the Countess of Blessington
Magazine article by Leonard Cowie; History Today, Vol. 49, June 1999
Subjects: Blessington, Marguerite--Biography
...Death of the Countess of Blessington by...4th, 1849 Marguerite Blessington, famous beauty...The brainy Marguerite alone was...at the age of fourteen...Meanwhile, Marguerites life was...widowed Earl of Blessington, who had...


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On the Graveyard Shift
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 6, 2005
...years did it take to construct? THE Royal Albert Hall stands on the site of Gore House, former home of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849), authoress and renowned beauty. Her literary soirees were the stuff of legend, attracting...


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Blessington, Marguerite, Countess Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLESSINGTON, MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF 1789 1849, English...married (1818) the earl of Blessington. In 1822 she began a...Count DOrsay (husband of her stepdaughter), and with him, after Blessingtons death, set up a brilliant...
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Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to England in 1821, where he met Marguerite, countess of Blessington , and her husband. In 1827, DOrsay...the union was unsuccessful. After Blessingtons death DOrsay and Marguerite became the center of a fashionable artistic and literary...


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