According to her editor Ernest J. Lovell
, Marguerite Blessington
finished writing her first novel, Ella Stratford; or, The Orphan Child, before she left Paris. It was printed in Philadelphia the same year.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Blessington's past made her notorious, as did her continuing association with Count D'Orsay
. Her biographer J. Fitzgerald Molloy
claims there was no foundation to the rumours that the two were lovers; editor Ernest J. Lovell
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Texts
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. Conversations of Lord Byron. Editor Lovell, Ernest J., Princeton University Press, 1969.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.