Jessica de Sismondi [née Allen] [Jessie]

(1777-1853)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Allen, Jessie, b. 1777 LBT ID: JeSismo1853 VIAF ID: 51448287 LOC ID: no2006089787	B/BAP: 1777-04-07 DIED: 1853-03-03
SOURCES: Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896 (1915); DNB ("Sismondi"); Virtual International Authority File; W. H. Auden: Family Ghosts; LOC Name Authority File
The daughter of John Bartlett Allen of Cresselly; in 1819 she married the French historian Léonard Simond de Sismondi; two of her sisters married Wedgewoods, a third Sir James Mackintosh. She corresponded with Emma Darwin.
REFERENCES TO Jessica de Sismondi [née Allen] [Jessie]: Lady Catherine Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 22 December 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Sydney Smith to Catharine Amelia Smith, 7 May 1826 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) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lady Catherine Mackintosh to John Whishaw, [1827] in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, 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) Letters 1826 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VIII. 1850 Found 1: ¶ 15 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter II: 1814 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Found 1: ¶ n1