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Marguerite Blessington, 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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Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, and L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon):...
Magazine article from: ANQ Hawkins, Ann R. March 22, 2003 700+ words ...professional lives. Neither Blessington nor Landon was considered to...society. Of the two, however, Blessington was considered the more dangerous...society did not visit the Countess of Blessington's drawing room or her popular... |
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The Countess of Blessington: reading as intimacy, reading as...
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Schmid, Susanne June 22, 2008 700+ words ...intellectual elite. Since the Countess of Blessington was one of the foremost salonnieres...her soon after his arrival. Blessington, recently famous Conversations...encounter between Willis and Blessington appeared in the New York Mirror... |
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The Death of the Countess of Blessington.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today Cowie, Leonard June 1, 1999 700+ words June 4th, 1849 Marguerite Blessington, famous beauty and...children. The brainy Marguerite alone was plain in...quarrel. Meanwhile, Marguerite's life was precarious...the widowed Earl of Blessington, who had 30,000... |
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The Arts Reviews: Performance
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Judith Palmer January 25, 2000 700+ words LADY BLESSINGTON AROUSED THE TABERNACLE LONDON...Victorian society beauty, Lady Blessington. Once the most whispered-about woman of her day, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, had spent 150 years gradually... |
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London June 4, 1998 700+ words ...adventurer and writer, 1798; Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Irish rebel, arrested, and died from wounds, 1798; Marguerite, Countess Blessington, woman of letters, 1849; Emily Wilding Davidson, suffragette, trampled to death by a horse at the Derby... |
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CHANGING face of beauty.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) November 10, 2003 700+ words ...1640-1650: Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle. She was noted...1700-1710: Anne Churchill, Countess of Sunderland. Famed for her...were admired 1830-1840: Marguerite, Countess of Blessington. Her youthful looks and come... |
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On the graveyard shift.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) May 6, 2005 700+ words ...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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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London September 1, 1999 700+ words ...College, 1566; Giacomo Torelli, theatrical designer, 1608; John Thomson, landscape painter, 1778; Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Blessington, writer and journalist, 1789; Zerah Colburn, infant prodigy in mathematics, 1804; August Horn... |
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BOOKS: ADONIS IN PANTALOONS Count D'Orsay changed gloves six times a day and...
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday Marianne Brace May 4, 2003 700+ words ...wife died, Lord Blessington wooed and pursued...was irresistible. Blessington stumped up another...and promptly made "Marguerite" his countess. By the time Alfred...extravagant fortune. Blessington promised to provide... |
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...went to England in 1821, where he met Marguerite, countess of Blessington , and her husband. In 1827, D'Orsay...the union was unsuccessful. After Blessington's death D'Orsay and Marguerite became the center of a fashionable... |
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Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...Relief Acts in 1778 and 1782. His son Charles became earl of Blessington 1816, and married Marguerite Power (1789–1849), who, as ‘Countess of Blessington’, established herself after her husband's death... |
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