Alfred d'Orsay

Standard Name: d'Orsay, Alfred
Used Form: Count d'Orsay
Used Form: Count Alfred D'Orsay

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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. Downey.
44-5
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.
508
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. Downey.
189
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
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.
148-9
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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