Close

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Blessing.html" title="Facts and informations about Marguerite Blessington, countess of">Marguerite Blessington, countess of</a>

Marguerite Blessington, countess of

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).

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out. Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2002; ; 691 words ; Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking...public spectacle in the Romantic period. Lord Byron at Harrow School builds upon this work...or repressed) variations of self hood. Lord Byron at Harrow School thus seeks to combine... Read more
	The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore.(Book Review) Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2004; ; 621 words ; The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore. By JEFFERY W. VAIL. Baltimore, MD, and London...perhaps, Moore's greatest work, the Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life. In so doing, Jeffery Vail puts to... Read more
	The money in poetry. Magazine article from: Poetry; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...to comment on some major economic problem (inflation) and Lord Byron sprang to mind: On with the dance; let joy be unconfined...People, Yes On corporate raids and takeovers: once again, Lord Byron set it down in a clutch of words: The Assyrian came down like... Read more
	Lighting the Night Sky.(Poem)(Excerpt) Magazine article from: Northwest Review; 5/1/2007; ; 302 words ; ...name the way other people change shirts THESE PEOPLE said Lord Byron, these people have an endemic incapacity for telling the truth...face like a fried egg Paul Klee changing names like hats and Lord Byron, fleet as Nadia Comaneci --and the phoenix flower dies and... Read more
	Byron. (Report from Europe). Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 12/1/2002; ; 379 words ; George Gordon, sixth baron Byron, better known as Lord Byron, managed to squeeze a remarkable amount into his relatively...October. Entitled Mad, Bad and Dangerous, the Cult of Lord Byron, the show's curator is Fiona MacCarthy. There is no catalogue... Read more
	Top hotel unveils expansion plan. Newspaper article from: Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England); 8/13/2007; 380 words ; ...29 rooms to its facilities. The hall, where notorious poet Lord Byron married Anne Isabella in 1815, has gained a worldwide reputation...former nursing home set in 13 acres of landscaped grounds off Lord Byron's Walk, Seaham Hall was bought by Tom and Jocelyn Maxfield... Read more
	Hotel unveils plans for future. Newspaper article from: Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England); 1/3/2007; 304 words ; ...least 25 more rooms to its facilities. The former home of poet Lord Byron has gained a worldwide reputation since it was transformed...of private apartments in a building near the main hall on Lord Byron's Walk. As they have come up for sale, we have purchased every... Read more
	The elementiad.(KICKSHAWS)(Poem) Magazine article from: Word Ways; 8/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...city of Manganese. My legs pealed like bells when I rang my knees. PART III: LORD BYRON I learned all I know smelting iron, And it smelt pretty bad, said Lord Byron. George Gordon (his real name) sniffed cobalt. When he died, his insurance claimed... Read more
	Venice unmasked. Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 8/17/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...jewels, and gilded illusions. Gay or bisexual writers like Lord Byron, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Mann all found solace...made famous by bisexual poet and romantic extraordinaire Lord Byron, whose line I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs created... Read more
	Lord Byron's Jackal.(Review) Magazine article from: New Criterion; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; David Crane Lord Byron's Jackal. HarperCollins UK, 398 pages, 19.99 [pounds sterling] Byron asked me to preserve the skull for him; but remembering that... Read more

For more facts and information, see all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Alfred Guillaume Gabriel Orsay, count d' Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in 1821, where he met Marguerite, countess of Blessington , and her husband. In 1827, D'Orsay married Blessington's daughter, but the union was unsuccessful. After Blessington's death D'Orsay and Marguerite became the center of a... Read more
	Gardiner Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...Catholic 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 as a popular... Read more

See all related entries