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
Publishing
Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
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.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
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Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. Conversations of Lord Byron. Editor Lovell, Ernest J., Jr, Princeton University Press, 1969.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.