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Name: Marguerite Countess of Blessington
Variant Name: Margaret Power Farmer Gardiner
Birth Date: September 1, 1789
Death Date: June 4, 1849
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: Irish
Gender: Female

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Biography of Marguerite Countess of Blessington
2,170 words, approx. 7 pages
Margaret (Power) Farmer Gardiner, countess of Blessington, a noted beauty and salon hostess, was also a diarist, novelist, gossip writer, and travel writer. People appreciated her works for their shrewd observations as well as for the social and...


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Marguerite, countess of Blessington (September 1, 1789 - June 4, 1849), nee Margaret Power, Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer, daughter of Edmund Power, a small landowner, was born near Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. Her childhood was made...


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Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, and L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon): evidence of a friendship. (Essays).
03/22/2003: 2,386 words, approx. 8 pages
In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Rosamund Vincy and Ned Plymdale examine The Keepsake, an annual giftbook for women in a "gorgeous watered-silk" (303). When Dr. Lydgate scoffs at such "silli[ness]" (303), Plymdale's defense--"There are a great many celebrated people writing in the Keepsake"--falls flat, and...
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The Death of the Countess of Blessington.(Brief Article)
06/01/1999: 600 words, approx. 2 pages
June 4th, 1849 Marguerite Blessington, famous beauty and society lady, was born on December 1st, 1789, at Knockbrit, near Clonmel in County Tipperary. Her father, Edmund Power, was an Irish squire, dissolute and harsh towards his seven children. The brainy Marguerite alone was...
 


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