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Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, condesa de Blessington (Clonmel, September 1, 1789 – Paris, June 4, 1849) was an Irish novelist.
He was born like Margaret Power Near CloneL in Tipperay County, Ireland, was the daughter of Edmund Power, a small landowner. His childhood was uncomfortable due to his father’s character and poverty, and his early maturity unfortunate for his marriage imposed at the age of fifteen with Captain Maurice St. Leger Farmer, an English officer whose alcoholic habits finally took him as debtor To King’s Bench prison, where he died in October 1817.
Marguerite had left him before, moving to Hampshire where he met the Irish count Charles John Gardiner, first count of Blessington, a widower with four children (two legitimate), which was seven years younger than her. They married St Mary’s, Bryanston Square, Marylebone on February 16, 1818 (only four months after the death of his first husband). Of exceptional beauty, charm and ingenuity, it also distinguished itself by its generosity and the extravagant tastes that she shared with her husband, which resulted in her farms for debts. On August 25, 1822, they undertook a trip to the continent with Marguerite’s younger sister, Mary Anne, twenty -one, and several servants. They found Count D’Osay (who had met Lady Blessington in London in 1821) in Aviñón on November 20, 1822, before settling in Genoa for four months since March 31, 1823. There they were with Lord Byron in several occasions, which gave Lady Blessington material for her Conversations with Lord Byron .
Then they settled for most of the time in Naples, where she met the Irish writer Richard Robert Madden, who would become her biographer. They also spent time in Florence with their friend Walter Savage Landor, author of Imaginary conversations that she admitted a lot. It was in Italy, on December 1, 1827, when Count D’Orsay married Harriet Gardiner, the only daughter of Lord Blessington of his previous wife. However, Harriet and D’Orsay separated soon. The Blessington and the newlyweds went to Paris at the end of 1828, residing in the Hôtel Maréchal Ney, where the count died suddenly at 46 years of age of a stroke attack in 1829. d’Orsay, who ended To separate from his wife, he then accompanied Lady Blessington to England and lived with her until her death. His house, first in Seamore Place and then in Gore House, Kensington, currently the headquarters of Albert Hall, became the center of attraction for all distinguished people in literature, teaching, art, science and fashion. There Benjamin Disraeli wrote his novel Venetia .
After the death of her husband, she complemented her diminished income contributing to several periodic publications, as well as writing novels. For several years he edited The Book of Beauty and The Keepsake , popular annuals of the time. In 1834 he published his Conversations with Lord Byron . Are Idler in Italy (1839-1840) and Idler in France (1841) were popular for personal gossip and anecdote, descriptions of nature and feeling.
In early 1849, Count D’Orsay left Gore House to flee his creditors; Therefore, furniture and decoration were sold in public auction with what Lady Blessington got to pay off his debts. Lady Blessington joined the count in Paris, where she died on June 4, 1849 of a heart attack. When examining it, it was found that its heart tripled normal size. [ required appointment ]
Are Literary Life and Correspondence (3 vols.), Edited by Richard Robert Madden, appeared in 1855. A portrait of her, the work of Sir Thomas Lawrence, can be seen in the Wallace collection in London.
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- This article includes public domain text of: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature . London, J. M. Dent & Child; New York, E. dutton.
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