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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dufferin and Clandeboye, Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness, 1807-1867 NRA: Blackwood, Helen Selina (1807-1867) nee Sheridan, author and poet, wife of Earl of Gifford DNB: Hay [née Sheridan], Helen Selina, countess of Gifford [other married name Helen Selina Blackwood, Lady Dufferin and Claneboye] (1807-1867), author and song writer LBT ID: LyGiffo1 VIAF ID: 100648429 LOC ID: n82164826 | B/BAP: 1807 DIED: 1867-06-13 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
English poet, the elder sister of Caroline Norton and granddaughter of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan; in 1825 she married Price Blackwood (1794-1841), baron Dufferin; in 1862 she
remarried, to George Hay, earl of Gifford. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Helen Selina Blackwood, countess of Gifford [née Sheridan]: Lady Dufferin to Samuel Rogers, 1 January 1843 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Sydney Smith to Lady Dufferin, [August] 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [17 October] 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) | |
