Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.
1839-1842
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Wealth and Poverty | Anne Marsh | Their move back to England was facilitated by a legacy of £5,000 from Anne's father. Heath-Caldwell, J. J. “Letters, References and Notes (1780-1874), Relating to James Caldwell and Anne Marsh (Marsh-Caldwell)”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell. 1839-1842 |
Publishing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron
with the Countess of Blessington appeared in the New Monthly Magazine. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 219 |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Conversations of Lord Byron
with the Countess of Blessington appeared in volume form. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 3 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 149 |
Author summary | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
wrote non-fiction, poetry, and novels, many of them in the silver-fork category. Although she was a popular novelist in her day, well reviewed and respected by a number of other writers, her account... |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall
rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron
. She based her work on... |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron
wrote but later burned. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book describes the emotions and the atmosphere of Italy, rather than the practical details of travel. Memoirs of Byron
play an important part, without repeating material used in Conversations of Lord Byron with... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron
, Shelley
, Landor
, Disraeli
, the Duke of Wellington
, Lord John Russell
, Palmerston
, and Sir Robert Peel
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | MB wrote occasional verse from her youth. She and Byron
exchanged poems at Genoa in May 1823. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 46-7 |
Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | On Byron
's death she wrote an elegy in twelve couplets. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 65 |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | In GenoaMarguerite Blessington
formed a friendship with Lord Byron
; her conversations with him over nine weeks became the basis of her most popular book. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 68 Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press. 148 |
Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | Later again there was affection, if not much respect, in Byron
's declaration that he disdain[ed] to write an Atalantis George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Don Juan. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Houghton Mifflin, http://UofARutherford. 418 |
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