Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
's Country Quarters. A Novel was published posthumously with a memoir of the author by her niece M. A. Power
.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1158 (1850): 16
Textual Production
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The first Book of Beauty to appear under MGCB
's editorship, that for 1834, contained a portrait of the editor herself. Many of the tales and poems were written either by her or her niece...
Textual Production
Camilla Crosland
Her other work for periodicals includes a short story, A Railroad Adventure, published in 1843 in Ainsworth's Magazine, as well as pieces in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, the Illustrated London...
Residence
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Count D'Orsay
had preceded her two weeks earlier. The future writer Marguerite Power
(her niece) lived with Blessington during this period.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
American poet Emily Dickinson
loved EBB
's poetry. The language of Aurora Leigh crops up throughout her oeuvre, and she recalls the transformative experience, sanctifying the soul, of her early reading in one poem: I...
Friends, Associates
Camilla Crosland
Her work for the annuals led to her connection with Lady Blessington
and her niece Marguerite Power
. Despite the disapproval of other friends she was a regular visitor to Blessington's home, Gore House...
Family and Intimate relationships
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
A niece who was also called Marguerite Power
lived in Paris with Lady Blessington in her later years. She followed in her aunt's footsteps to become an editor of the The Keepsake and also a...
Timeline
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Texts
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, and Marguerite A. Power. Country Quarters. W. Shoberl, 1850.
Reynolds, Frederic Mansel et al., editors. The Keepsake. Hurst, Chance; R. Jennings.