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	Marguerite, Countess of Blessington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marguerite, countess of Blessington (September 1, 1789 - June 4, 1849), nee Margaret Power, Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer, daughter of Edmund Power, a small landowner, was born near Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
		Her childhood was made unhappy by her father's character and poverty, and her early womanhood wretched by her compulsory marriage at the age of fifteen to a Captain Maurice St Leger Farmer, whose drunken habits brought him at last as a debtor to the kings bench prison, where, in October 1817, he died.
		Lady Blessington joined the count in Paris, where she died on the 4th of June 1849 of a burst heart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marguerite,_Countess_of_Blessington (567 words)

	Érudit \| RON n29-30 2003 : Hawkins : “Formed with Curious Skill”: Blessington’s negotiation of the “poetess” ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Blessington’s Salon placed her at the center of a circle of literary men who included such literary lions as Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Walter Savage Landor, and Edward Bulwer Lytton; the Salon gave her access to publishers and writers who were invaluable in furthering her literary career.
		Blessington’s task, then, was to negotiate a new kind of poetry that avoids the excesses and superficialities she criticized in “Stock in Trade,” but that accommodates the demands of the marketplace.
		Blessington clearly values Hemans for the fact that “her poetry was a primer in the sphere of the domestic affection, religious piety, and patriotic passion, and of the female (more particularly, maternal) responsibility for binding these sensibilities together” (Wolfson 214).
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2003/v/n29/007721ar.html (8009 words)

	Blessington, Marguerite, countess of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Blessington, Marguerite, countess of 1789-1849, English author and famous beauty, b.
		At the age of 14 she was forced by her father into marriage with Capt. Maurice St. Leger Farmer, a sadist who abused her.
		Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, and L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon): evidence of a friendship.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-blessing.html (309 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for marguerite
		The son of a Bonapartist general, he went to England in 1821, where he met Marguerite, countess of Blessington, and her husband.
		Marguerite de Navarre's L'Inquisiteur: the way is simplicity itself.
		Guilty sisters: Marguerite de Navarre, Elizabeth of England, and the Miroir de l'ame pecheresse.
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	Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
		Blessington was, again, reticent about this relationship, but it is reported (2) that she was treated by Jenkins and his family with the delicacy, respect and affection that his wife may expect.
		Blessington made a pleasing impression on her (predominantly) male companions, but her 'happiness', as throughout the rest of her life, proved to be ephemeral.
		Marguerite, Countess of Blessington was a woman of talent, making the most of the resources available to her, through her personal charm, her varied life-experience and writing skill.
	www.shu.ac.uk /schools/cs/corvey/database/authors/datab/blessington/aabless/aablessbio.htm (2993 words)

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		Marguerite and her sister were fancied by some wealthy maiden-lady relatives, and were taken by them to a home of comfort.
		Though not received in general society, the Countess surrounded herself with celebrities of all nations; and it was at her house that Louis Napoleon was a cherished guest in his years of exile, and from whence he proceeded to head the government of France.
		The Countess of Grosvenor was a lady of high character and most affable manners, and held her exalted position with a dignity of demeanor and a bearing worthy of a descent from the noble Gowers, lords of Sittenham.
	www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/gutenberg/1/6/0/7/16079/16079-8.txt (15043 words)

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		Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of 1789-1849, authoress, was born at Knockbrit, near Clonmel, co. Tipperary, 1 Sept. 1789.
		With him the Countess of Blessington, down to the close of her life, was thenceforth most intimately associated.
		Before Byron parted from the Blessingtons, his acquaintance with whom had so rapidly ripened into intimate friendship that he did so with a passion of tears, he had sold his yacht Bolivar to the earl, and had written not only a jeu d'esprit, but one of the last of his minor poems to the countess.
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	Marguerite Power, Countess of Blessington
		Marguerite Power, afterwards Countess of Blessington, long known and admired in the world of fashion and light literature, was born in Knockbrit, county Tipperary, on the 1st of September, 1789.
		After their marriage the earl and countess lived on the Continent for several years, moving in a brilliant circle of rank, fashion, and genius.
		In the latter Lady Blessington introduces to her readers the leading representatives of art, literature, politics, and ton, whom she has received as friends or met in society.
	www.libraryireland.com /CIL/Blessington.php/index.php (1153 words)

	poetrymagazines.org.uk - Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington
		Marguarite, Countess of Blessington, an Irish beauty of the Regency and Early Victorian Periods, was also a famous literary and political hostess, and the author of at least one work of permanent interest: ‘Conversations of Lord Byron’;.
		On the 16th February, 1818, Lord Mountjoy, now the Earl of Blessington, married the beautiful Sally Farmer at the Church in Bryanston Square, London, and a coronet was placed on the head of the lady thereafter known as Marguerite, Countess of Blessington.
		The Blessingtons, with Marguerite’s younger sister and the Count d’Orsay, travelled in a sumptuous caravan of three coaches and at least six servants, including a courier and a cook.
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/record.asp?id=828 (2501 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Love Romances Of The Aristocracy, by Thornton Hall, F.S.A..
		He flirted outrageously with the Countess, kept her in peals of laughter by his sallies of wit and scarcely-veiled gibes at her companion, until Howard was roused to such a pitch of silent fury that only the presence of a lady restrained him from running the insolent intruder through with his sword.
		But the lesson he had received was so severe that for the rest of his days he gave the Countess and her lover the widest of berths, and retired into the obscurity in which alone he could feel safe from such a revengeful virago.
		The Countess was not long before her brazen effrontery carried her back to Court, where she took the lead in the revels and at the gaming-tables, and made love to the "Merrie Monarch" himself.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/4/1/9/14193/14193-h/14193-h.htm (17461 words)

	Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D'Orsay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1822, while stationed at Valence on the Rhone, he formed an acquaintance with Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington and Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, which quickly ripened into intimacy, and at the invitation of the earl he accompanied the party on their tour through Italy.
		A diary which d'Orsay had kept during a visit to London in 1821–1822 was submitted to Byron's inspection, and was much praised by him for the knowledge of men and manners and the keen faculty of observation it displayed.
		After the death of Lord Blessington, which occurred in 1829, the widowed countess returned to England, accompanied by d'Orsay, and her home, first at Seamore Place, then at Gore House, soon became a resort of the fashionable literary and artistic society of London, which found an equal attraction in host and in hostess.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Guillaume_Gabriel,_Count_D'Orsay (703 words)

	§23. Women writers. IX. Anglo-Irish Literature. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of ...
		Marguerite Power, countess of Blessington, after an unhappy first union, married the earl of Blessington and lived with him on the continent.
		Her two volumes The Idler in Italy and The Idler in France show the fruit of her foreign experiences.
		Like Lady Blessington, she wrote her experiences of life in France and Italy.
	www.bartleby.com /224/0923.html (914 words)

	AllRefer.com - Blessington, Marguerite, countess of (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Blessington, Marguerite, countess of 1789–1849, English author and famous beauty, b.
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	Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington quote - The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible ...
		Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington quote - The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an infl - Quotations Book
		The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
		Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington on Amazon USA
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	Corvey \| Adopt an Author
		Adopt an Author is a Special Study Unit in which third-year undergraduates choose to focus on a relatively unknown writer and two of her works, supplementing the material in CW
		This project focuses on Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849)
		Essay on the work of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
	extra.shu.ac.uk /corvey/corinne/1Blessington (48 words)

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		It is said that this was but an artifice to divert Charles's attention from an intrigue that she was carrying on with that rakish beau, Henry Jermyn; but, whatever the cause, there is no doubt that for a time she lost no opportunity of throwing her Royal lover and the fair Stuart together.
		Nothing pleased this Countess more than to bring her lovers together, to watch with gloating eyes their rivalries, their jealousies, and their quarrels, which frequently led to her crowning enjoyment--the shedding of blood.
		And thus, tearful, indignant, protesting to the last, the girl was led to the altar, by the biggest scoundrel in Tipperary--a "maiden tribute" to a lover's lust and a father's ambition.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/4/1/9/14193/14193-8.txt (17169 words)

	Ann R. Hawkins--Scholarship
		Victims of Society (1837) by Marguerite Farmer Power Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, Vol.
		"Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, and L. (Letitia E. Landon): Evidence of a Friendship." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 16.2 (Spring 2003): 27-32.
		"Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of Blessington" Biographical Entry for British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries database.
	webpages.acs.ttu.edu /annhawki/scholar.html (417 words)

	COUNTESS OF MARGUERITE... - Online Information article about COUNTESS OF MARGUERITE...
		Lady Harriet Gardiner, Lord Blessington's only daughter by a former wife.
		England and lived with her till her death.
		furniture and decorations were sold, and Lady Blessington joined the count in See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BLESSINGTON_MARGUERITE_COUNTESS.html (627 words)

	AllRefer.com - Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron Information
		Byron was also a friend of Lady Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington and author of A Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron.
		Marguerite left her husband and Ireland in 1829 and moved to London, to live with her lover, d'Orsay.
		He became the symbol of Romanticism and political liberalism throughout Europe in the 19th century.
	www.allrefer.com /byron-george-gordon-6th-baron-byron (452 words)

	Faculty Academic Contributions Exhibit 2006- Arts and Sciences
		Hawkins was a 2004 New Scholar by the Bibliographical Society of America, and she has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and University of Virginia s Rare Book School.
		Abstact: Best known today for her "Conversations with Lord Byron, " Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington was in her day a publishing phenomenon, earning more than 2000 per annum from her writing alone--a figure making her the most highly paid woman writer of her generation.
		This edition--with introduction, extensive bibliographies, textual notes, and annotations--is the first appearance of one of Blessington 's novels in print since the end of the nineteenth-century.
	library.ttu.edu /face/2006/FACE2006arts.html (7761 words)

	Heath's Book of Beauty : 1843 : With Beautifully Finished Engravings, from Drawings by the First Artists : Edited By ...
		Notable for the engraved illustrations after works by A. Chalon, John Hayter, Edwin Landseer, and others; also noteworthy for the prose and verse contributions (particularly "An Episode in Life" by Bulwer-Lytton).
		Slight wear to extremities (chiefly to spine edges, covers and corners); slight scuffing and rubbing to covers; slight bumping to corners; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges and preliminaries); else a fairly serviceable fine bound copy.
		Keywords: Great Britain England 19th Century Engraving Plate Gardiner, Marguerite Blessington, Countess of English Literature English Fiction English Poetry Binding QX91.
	www.biblio.com /books/10461393.html (255 words)

	Blessington, Margaret Gardiner, countess of (1789-1849) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During a party he fell from a window ledge and died.
		By that time she had left Ireland for London and in 1818 she married Charles John Gardiner, earl of Blessington in 1818.
		They lived in an extravagant way and he was heavily indebted.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p021971.htm (357 words)

	BLESSINGTON ([Marguerite,] Countess of [née Power])., The Confessions Of an Elderly gentleman. Illustrated by six ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BLESSINGTON ([Marguerite,] Countess of [née Power])., The Confessions Of an Elderly gentleman.
		Illustrated by six female portraits, from highly Finished drawings by E.T. Parris.
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		Nomme de Plume of Marguerite Gardiner, 1789-1849, Countess of Blessington.
		She also wrote as Margaret Power.(her maiden name) First married, when she was 15 to Capt. Maurice Farmer, who died in 1817.
		See ‘ A Memoir of the literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Dr Madden, 1840 and The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington, J Fitzgerald Molloy, 1896 for biographical details.
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	marguerite- WordWeb dictionary definition
		Perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum
		- marguerite daisy, Paris daisy, Chrysanthemum frutescens, Argyranthemum frutescens
		Encyclopedia: Marguerite Marguerite, Countess of Blessington Marguerite, Duchess of Berry
	www.wordwebonline.com /en/MARGUERITE (71 words)

	English Department, Texas Tech University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ann R. Hawkins (Ph.D. Kentucky, 1997) is an assistant professor of Bibliography with particular interests in the British book trade during the nineteenth century.
		In addition to articles on Romantic poetry and 19th-century women, she has produced scholarly editions of Benjamin Disraeli's Henrietta Temple and Venetia and an edition of Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington's Victims of Society, all published by Pickering & Chatto, London in 2004 & 2005.
		In 2007 she will guest-curate an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library entitled "Marketing Shakespeare, 1788-1806." She is currently finishing her book, "Byron and the Shakespeare Trade." She has recently been named Series Editor for Pickering's series of single-author volumes on History of the Book.
	www.english.ttu.edu /lit/19th_Century.asp (854 words)

	Scholarship
		Series editor for History of the Book, publishing single-author texts and monographs.
		"Marketing Gender and Nationalism: Blessington's Gems of Beauty / L'Ecrin" forthcoming from Women's Writing 12.2 (2005): 225-41.
		"'Formed with Curious Skill': Blessington's Negotiation of the 'Poetess' in Flowers of Loveliness.
	www.faculty.english.ttu.edu /hawkins/cv.html (386 words)

	The History Class: 1890-1990: Part IV
		The year 1981-1982 saw us launched on Ladies Bright and Bountiful: Culture and Patronage, an enticing series any of whom one would have enjoyed writing about.
		Thrale, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, George Sand, Lady Augusta Gregory, and Lady Ottoline Morrell.
		A varied group of women pioneers in professions ranging from architecture to anthropology included Julia Morgan, architect, Amelia Earhart, aviatrix, Marguerite Harrison, explorer, Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector, Ruth Benedict, anthropologist, and Elizabeth Blackwell, physician.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?PAGE=3585 (831 words)

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		With a supplement, containing a selection of pieces from The assistant of education.
		Gardiner, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington see Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of.
		Spiritual recreations in the chamber of affliction: or, Pious meditation in verse; written during a protracted illness of thirteen years by Eliza.
	digital.lib.ucdavis.edu /projects/bwrp/FINALLIST.htm (1679 words)

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