NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849 NRA: Gardiner Marguerite (1789-1849) nee Power author and hostess wife of 1st Earl of Blessington DNB: Gardiner [née Power; other married name Farmer], Marguerite [Margaret], countess of Blessington (1789-1849), author LBT ID: LyBless1 VIAF ID: 7567161 LOC ID: n86806871 | B/BAP: 1789-09-01 DIED: 1849-06-04 |
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After a separation from a first husband in 1818 she married the Earl of Blessington; they
traveled on the Continent, meeting Byron in 1822; her best-known work, Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, originally appeared in the New Monthly Magazine (1832-33). | |
REFERENCES TO Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington [née Power]: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 3 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 4 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 6 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 14 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 2 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 22 April 1823 in “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (July 1832) 5-23 Found 1:
¶ 1 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 7 May 1823 in “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (July 1832) 5-23 Found 1:
¶ 1 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 23 May 1823 in “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (July 1832) 5-23 Found 1:
¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 6 February 1825 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (1 January 1831) 3-5 Found 1:
¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 20 October 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1:
¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Byron and his Friends Found 1:
¶ 2 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1:
¶ 23 Ch. 17: Literary Characters Found 1:
¶ 13 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on
Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 1:
¶ 12 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter III. Found 1:
¶ 10 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXII. Found 1:
¶ 31 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1832 Found 1:
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