Marguerite A. Power

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...

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...

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...

Count D'Orsay had preceded her two weeks earlier. The future writer Marguerite Power (her niece) lived with Blessington during this period.

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...

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington 's Country Quarters. A Novel was published posthumously with a memoir of the author by her niece M. A. Power .

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...