Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Alfred d'Orsay
Standard Name: d'Orsay, Alfred
Used Form: Count d'Orsay
Used Form: Count Alfred D'Orsay
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The Dictionary of National Biography said that Count D'Orsay
lived at Gore House with Blessington; the new edition does not say so explicitly. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(whom she never met, but of whose wife and family she remained a faithful friend and correspondent after Hawthorne's death), Bulwer Lytton
, and Charles Kingsley
(all of... |
| Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | They included public men like George Canning
, John Philpot Curran
, and Lord Erskine
, and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble
, George Colman
the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays... |
| Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | In November 1827 Count D'Orsay
contracted an arranged marriage with Lord Blessington's legitimate daughter, the fifteen-year-old Lady Harriet Gardiner
. He thereby became Lord Blessington's legal heir. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 148-9 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | As his fame grew, Thomas was increasingly invited to the homes of London's political and intellectual elite, while Jane moved in her own social circle, which included Charles Dickens
, John Forster
, Giuseppe Mazzini |
| Other Life Event | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | A letter in the Age insinuated that the recently widowed Marguerite Blessington
, Count D'Orsay
, and his wife
(still in Paris) made up a scandalous mènage à trois. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896. 189 |
| 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, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 508 |
| Travel | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
travelled extensively in Europe with her second husband
and latterly with Count Alfred D'Orsay
, garnering material for her writings. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896. 44-5 |
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