Helen Blackwood

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**Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin na Claneboye** (née **Sheridan**, 18 Jenụwarị 1807 - 13 June 1867), mgbe e mesịrị Countess of Gifford, bụ onye Irish na-ede egwu, onye na-ede uri, na onye edemede. A na-enwe mmasị n'ihi ọgụgụ isi ya na nkà edemede ya, ọ bụ onye a ma ama na obodo London nke etiti narị afọ nke 19.

## Oge ọ bụ nwata na alụmdi na nwunye
Helen Sheridan si n'ezinụlọ na-ede akwụkwọ na ihe nkiri nwere njikọ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị. Nna ya, Thomas Sheridan (1775-1817), onye na-eme ihe nkiri, onye agha na onye nchịkwa nke ọchịchị, bụ nwa nwoke nke onye edemede egwuregwu Irish a ma ama Richard Brinsley Sheridan,  nne ya bụ Caroline_Henrietta_Sheridan" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Caroline Henrietta Sheridan">Caroline Henrietta Sheridan (née Callander), onye edemede. N'afọ 1813, Thomas kpọọrọ Helen na nwunye ya gaa n'ọkwa na Cape of Good Hope, ebe ọ *amụrụ* afọ anọ ka e mesịrị na 12 Septemba 1817. Helen laghachiri England, ebe ya na nne ya, ụmụnne anọ na ụmụnne nwanyị abụọ ya biri na Hampton Court Palace "amara na ihu ọma". Ịma mma na ihe ụmụnne nwanyị ahụ rụzuru mere ka a kpọọ ha "Graces atọ". A maara Caroline dị ka nwa agbọghọ kachasị nwee ọgụgụ isi ma mesịa ghọọ onye edemede nwere nkà, Georgian, nke a na-ewere dị ka nwanne nwanyị kachasị mma, mechara bụrụ Duchess of Somerset site n'alụmdi na nwunye Edward Seymour, Duke nke 12 nke Somerset.

Mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na asaa, Helen kwere Commander Price Blackwood nkwa ọlụlụ, onye kasị nta n'ime ụmụ atọ nke 3rd Baron Dufferin na Claneboye, na Mehetabel Temple; n'ihi ọnwụ nke ụmụnne ya ọ ga-abụ Lord Dufferin n'ọdịnihu, ọ bụ ezie na ndị mụrụ ya chọrọ ka ọ lụọ di n'ụzọ bara uru karị, karịsịa dabere na ihe gbasara ego. Mgbe agbamakwụkwọ ha na London na St. George's, Hanover Square, London, na 4 Julaị 1825, ha gara biri na Florence n'ihi mmegide nke alụmdi na nwunye site n'aka ezinụlọ Blackwood, mana ha laghachiri afọ abụọ ka e mesịrị na nwa nwa nwoke Frederick, onye amụrụ na 21 June 1826. Ụmụnne ya nwanyị mere ka ọ mata ndị na-ewu ewu ebe ya na ndị ama ama n'oge ahụ, Mary Berry, Samuel Rogers, Henry Taylor, Brougham, Sydney Smith, na Benjamin Disraeli; Disraeli mechara kwuo na ọ bụ "onye isi na-enwe mmasị na ya". N'afọ 1839, ọ ghọrọ Lady Dufferin mgbe di ya ketara aha ya. Ọ nwụrụ na 1841 n'ihi oke ọgwụ morphine na mberede; Helen gara n'ihu na-anọ n'oge ọkọchị ya na ala ezinụlọ ya na Clandeboye na Ireland, nke bụzi nke Frederick.

N'ọnwa Ọktoba 1862, ọ kwetara ịlụ enyi ya George Hay, Earl of Gifford site na ikike pụrụ iche, mgbe o merụrụ ahụ nke ukwuu n'ihe mberede. Hay, onye bụ onye nketa nke Marquessate nke Tweeddale, nwụrụ site na mmerụ ahụ ya ọnwa abụọ mgbe ha lụsịrị. 

## Ide ihe
Malite mgbe ọ dị obere, Helen dere uri, abụ na okwu mmalite maka egwuregwu nke ya. Mgbe ya na Caroline jikọrọ aka na Set of Ten Songs and Two Duets, ọ malitere ibipụta uri nke ya, mgbe ụfọdụ ọ na-etinye ya na egwu nke ya. E bipụtaghị ya na mbụ n'aha nke ya, mana ọ bụghị onye a ma ama. Otu n'ime egwu ya kacha ewu ewu bụ The Irish Emigrant, nke e bipụtara na New York na Boston na London. N'akwụkwọ a na ndị ọzọ e dere n'oge Oké Ụnwụ Irish [1] o gosipụtara nghọta ụfọdụ banyere "mmetụta ọjọọ nke ụnwụ nri ahụ na ịhụnanya na ezinụlọ" n'agbanyeghị "anya", [2] ọ bụ ezie na otu onye nkatọ ekwuola na nhụjuanya nke ndị Irish bụ naanị "ihe ngosi" na "ihe ngosi maka ndị otu etiti Bekee". [3] Alfred Perceval Graves, na-ede ihe na mmalite narị afọ nke 20, nwere ịnụ ọkụ n'obi: "...obi ya dị ọkụ nke ukwuu na ndị agbata obi ya na-akọ ugbo nke na... o dere dị ka a ga-asị na ọ bụ otu n'ime ha, ebe ọchị ya na-efegharị n'abụ uri Irish ya na ikuku dị nro." [4]

.N'afọ 1863, e mere egwuregwu nke ya, n'otu afọ ahụkwa, o bipụtara akụkọ banyere njem ya na nwa ya nwoke gafere osimiri Naịl. Nke a mere ka ndị njem nwanyị nwee obi ụtọ ide ihe; aha ya bụ Lispings sitere na Low Latitudes, ma ọ bụ, Ihe ndị sitere na Journal of the Hon. Impulsia Gushington yiri akwụkwọ Frederick bụ Letters From High Latitudes. Ebumnuche nke egwuregwu ahụ bụ ịkwa emo akwụkwọ njem, karịsịa nke ụmụ nwanyị, n'oge ahụ. Egwuregwu ya, Finesse, ma ọ bụ, A Busy Day in Messina, nke e mepụtara na Haymarket Theatre na John Baldwin Buckstone dịka otu n'ime ndị na-eme ihe nkiri, gara nke ọma, mana onye edemede ahụ agaghị na ihe ngosi ọ bụla, ma ọ bụ kwado onye dere ya. Uri Dufferin, nke a na-etinyekarị n'egwú n'onwe ya ma ọ bụ ndị ọzọ, na-egosipụta nchegbu dị mkpa a na-achọpụta n'oge mmalite na etiti nke akwụkwọ Victorian: nkatọ na-akpasu iwe nke klaasị mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya, ihe na-elekwasị anya na ịda ogbenye na ọpụpụ Ireland, na enweghị olileanya maka mfu na nkewa. Ọ bụ ezie na Dufferin ji amamihe dị ukwuu dee ihe o dere n'oge na mgbe e mesịrị (karịsịa n'ihe ọchị mmekọrịta ya), egwu na uri ndị e dere n'etiti ndụ ya na-egosipụta mmetụta uche na mwute dị ukwuu.

N'ihe gbasara edemede ya, Westminster Review nyere ezigbo nkọwa nke nkà edemede ya na ọrụ ndị nwere mmetụta uche. "N'ime abụ na amaokwu ndị a chịkọtara n'ime mpịakọta ahụ, a ghaghị ikwupụta na ole na ole n'ime ha na-arịgo n'elu ndị a na-akwanyere ùgwù. "The Irish Emigrant" bụ abụ ya kachasị mma, ọ juputara n'ezi mmetụta. "Sweet Kilkenny Town" bụ Irish nke ukwuu, ọ nwere ike ịbụ abụ site na Erin nke na-arụsi ọrụ ike maka ịdị adị na nnukwu Republic of the West. N'akụkụ ya, anyị hụrụ ụda nke Moore, mana ọ na-egosi na ọdịdị ya dị mma, ọ bụghị ndị ọzọ ọmịiko nke ọdịdị ya, ọ bụ ihe oyiyi dị mma. Ọ bụ ihe ọmụma ya. Ọ na-enweghị isi na-enweghị ike dị mma. "Ọ bụ ihe ziri ezi na ụwa kwesịrị ịma ihe banyere otu n'ime ụmụ nwanyị kachasị mma nke na-eku ume, n'ihi nke a, akụkọ ndụ Lord Dufferin na amaokwu ndị na-eso ya ga-abụ ihe dị oké ọnụ ahịa n'ọtụtụ ụlọ". N'agbanyeghị na ọ na-ewu ewu na narị afọ nke iri na itoolu, ọrụ Dufferin na-ekpuchi ugbu a, n'akụkụ ụfọdụ site na nkatọ a na-elekwasị anya ugbu a na nwanne ya nwanyị, Caroline Norton.

Ọ nwụrụ na ọrịa kansa ara na 13 June 1867, mgbe ọ dị afọ 60, na Dufferin Lodge na Highgate ma lie ya na Friern Barnet na di ya nke abụọ. Nwa ya nwoke Frederick, onye ya na nne ya nwere mmekọrịta chiri anya na ịhụnanya, bipụtara mpịakọta nke Songs, Poems, & Verses by Helen, Lady Dufferin na akwụkwọ ncheta na 1894. N'oge gara aga, ọ kpọrọ obodo ahụ na ọdụ ụgbọ okporo ígwè e wuru n'ala ya Helen's Bay, ọ raara Ụlọ Elu Helen na Clandeboye Estate nye ya. Ụlọ elu ahụ kpaliri uri nke Tennyson na Browning bụ ndị jiri Helen a tụnyere Helen mara mma nke Troy nke akụkọ ifo:Dị ka nke ya, ihu gị mere ka anya niile gbasaa, Ma, n'adịghị ka nke ya، a gọziri ya anya ọ bụla.

## Abụ ndị dị n'ịntanetị

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* Terence's Farewell E debere ya na  Wayback Machine
* Ịhụnanya nwere asụsụ, site na Nwa m E debere  Wayback Machine
* ''Nwanyị Na-adọrọ Adọrọ Adọrọ''

## Edensibia

### Ihe edeturu

### Ebe e si nweta ya

* Alfred Perceval Graves, Anglo-Irish Literature, na mpịakọta. XIV nke The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (New York 1907-21) 
* Gregory A. Schirmer, Out of What Began: A History of Irish Poetry in English (Cornell 1998) 
* *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* isiokwu banyere Helen Selina Hay, Caroline Henrietta Sheridan, na Thomas Sheridan, nke A. Norman Jeffares, K. D. Reynolds (2004 mbipụta) na W. F. Rae (1897) 
* Westminster Review, Mpịakọta 142, (New York, Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1894) 

## Ịgụ ihe ọzọ
  

* Akwụkwọ akụkọ na-ese onyinyo na narị afọ nke 19 nke The Irish Emigrant na nkọwa
* ''Ha gwara m ka m chefuo gị!'' : egwu Helen, okwu nwanne ya nwanyị Caroline
* ''Ụlọ Elu Helen'' nke Browning sere
* ''Ụlọ Elu Helen'' nke Tennyson sere
* Helen's Bay, Helen's Tower na akwụkwọ Lord Dufferin
* Grace and Favour apartments at Hampton Court Archived 10 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine
* Wix.com 
* Oxnbfordd.com
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## Njikọ mpụga

* Works by or about Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and ClaneboyenaEbe Ndebe Ihe Ochie n'Intanet
* Works by Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and ClaneboyenaLibriVox (Akwụkwọ ndị a na-ege ntị n'ógbè ọha na eze) 
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Otú:Pages with unreviewed translations