Marguerite Gardiner

Marguerite Gardiner, Comtesse Blessington (née Power; 1 September 1789 – 4 Juni 1849), merupakan seorang novelis, wartawan, dan nyonya rumah sastra Irlandia.The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 104. Dia berkenalan dengan Lord Byron di Genova dan menulis buku tentang percakapannya dengannya.Conversations with Byron, 1834.

Penghargaan sastra
Puisi Letitia Elizabeth Landon To Marguerite, Countess of Blessington muncul dalam Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839.

Karya terpilih
 Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington (1834)
 Gems of Beauty Displayed in a Series of Twelve Highly Finished Engravings (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1836), syair, diilustrasikan oleh E. T. Parris
 The Passions (1838), syair
 Idler in Italy (1839–1840)
 Idler in France (1841)
 Versi digital oleh 

Biografi
Literary Life and Correspondencenya (3 jilid), diedit oleh Richard Robert Madden, tampil pada 1855. Potretnya dilukis pada 1808 oleh Sir Thomas Lawrence dan dapat dilihat di The Wallace Collection, London.

Sebuah catatan terperinci tentang hubungan Comtesse dan D'Orsay muncul di The Last of the Dandies oleh Nick Foulkes (2003).Reprinted as Scandalous Society. Passion and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century (London: Abacus, 2004). 

Referensi

• Morning Post, 5 June 1849 • Athenæum, 9 June 1849, p. 599• Memoir prefixed to Country Quarters, vol. i. pp. iii-xxiii, 1850 • Grantley Berkeley's Recollections, vol. iii. ch. x. Gore House, pp. 201–31, 1865• Jerdan's Autobiography, iv. 320-1 • C. Mathews's Autobiography, i. 60-165• Annual Register for 1849, pp. 245–6 • Gent. Mag. August 1849, pp. 202–3• Chorley's Authors of England, pp. 28–30, 1861 • Madden's Life of the Countess of Blessington, 3 vols. 8vo, 1855• Illustrated London News, 9 June 1849, p. 396. 

Pranala luar

Lady Blessington manuscript material, 1820-1849, held by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library, New York Public Library


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