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
...inclosing lines written in Naples, addressed to Lady Blessington: "Palais Belvidere, Naples, Monday. "MY...sincerely, T. STEWART." Lines addressed to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, on her leaving Naples, spring, 1826, in...
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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
LETTER FROM LADY BLESSINGTON TO CAPTAIN MARRYATT...cordial friend, M. Blessington." From Captain Marryatt...two haddocks, my dear countess, into a kettle containing...regards to Mademoiselles Marguerite and Ellen." " February...
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Selected Letters
Book by Adrian Williams, Franz Liszt; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Composers--Correspondence, Liszt, Franz--1811-1886--Correspondence
...nonchalante , Op. 110. Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of Knockbrit, nr. Clonmel...Byron with the Countess of Blessington London, 1834 , a book eagerly...years after the death of Lord Blessington, she moved into Gore House...
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Landor, a Replevin
Book by Malcolm Elwin; MacDonald, 1958
Subjects: Drama, Landor, Walter Savage--1775-1864
...367 Belmore, Mary Anne, Countess, 98 -9, 312 , 329 , 343...15 , 21 -5, 245 , 358 Blessington, Charles John Gardiner...238 , 257 , 468 ; 279 , 465 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, meets Landor, 227...
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Byron, Shelley, Hunt, and the Liberal
Book by William H. Marshall; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1960
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron--Baron--1788-1824, Fiction, Hunt, Leigh--1784-1859, Shelley, Percy Bysshe--1792-1822
...41 Blaquiere, Edward, 185 n "A Blessed Spot" Leigh Hunt , 189 n, 197 n, 198 n Blessington, Charles, First Earl of, 95 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 63 , 67 n, 167 "The Blues" Byron , 55 - 56 , 172 - 73, 179 n, 180 -83...
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journal articles on: Blessington Marguerite Countess Of  - 4 results

 
 
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The Countess of Blessington: Reading as Intimacy, Reading as Sociability
Journal article by Susanne Schmid; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 39, 2008
Subjects: American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American writers--Travel, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, American--Travel, Authors, American--Works, Gardiner, Marguerite--Criticism and interpretation, Gardiner, Marguerite--Works, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Willis, Nathaniel Parker--Criticism and interpretation, Willis, Nathaniel Parker--Travel, Willis, Nathaniel Parker--Works
The Countess of Blessington: Reading as Intimacy, Reading...encounter between the notorious Countess of Blessington, now a dethroned empress but...of Literary Fame (1999); Blessington, Marguerite, The Repealers (1833...
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Locating Byron: Languages, Voices, and Displaced Utterances
Journal article by Diego Saglia; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 86, 2007
...July 1832 and December 1833, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington famously described Byron as...the text. (4) Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, A Journal...Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington (London, 1893...
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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
...religion in the biography written by Countess Teresa Guiccioli (the poets Italian...Byrons Deism. See Marchand and Blessington on the superstitions. On the drinking...and Noble, 1985. Blessington, Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner. Lady Blessingtons...
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Traditional Belles or Borderline Bluestockings? the Petigru Women
Journal article by William H. Pease, Jane H. Pease; South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 102, 2001
...time, read for pure diversion. Lady Marguerite Blessingtons stories, for example...young daughters from the likes of Lady Blessington, she probably encouraged their reading...Scottish knight as he rescued the fair countess Isabelle de Coyne from a forced dynastic...


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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
The Death of the Countess of Blessington by Leonard Cowie June 4th, 1849 Marguerite Blessington, famous beauty and society lady, was born...towards his seven children. The brainy Marguerite alone was plain in a good-looking family...


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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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encyclopedia articles on: Blessington Marguerite Countess Of  - 2 results

 
 
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Blessington, Marguerite, Countess Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLESSINGTON, MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF 1789 1849, English author and famous beauty, b. Ireland...soon left him and after his death married (1818) the earl of Blessington. In 1822 she began a liaison with Count DOrsay (husband of...
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Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...general, he went to England in 1821, where he met Marguerite, countess of Blessington , and her husband. In 1827, DOrsay married...unsuccessful. After Blessingtons death DOrsay and Marguerite became the center of a fashionable artistic and...


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