| LC control no. | n 86806871 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR4149.B5 |
| Personal name heading | Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849 |
| Variant(s) | B, Lady Blessington, Countess of, 1789-1849 Blessington, Lady, 1789-1849 Blessington, Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of, 1789-1849 Gardiner, Marguerite 1789-1849 Power, Margaret 1789-1849 Farmer, Margaret 1789-1849 |
| Associated country | England |
| Associated place | Caher (Tipperary, Ireland) Dublin (Ireland) |
| Located | Clonmel (Ireland) |
| Address | 11 St. James Square London England |
| Birth date | 1789-09-01 |
| Death date | 1849-06-04 |
| Place of birth | Tipperary (Ireland : County) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Novelists |
| Found in | nuc85-53587: Her Memoirs of a femme de chambre [MI] 1846 (hdg. on GmC rept.: Blessington, Marguerite (Power) Farmer Gardiner, countess of, 1789-1849; usage: Countess of Blessington) LC data base, 2/10/86 (hdg.: Blessington, Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner, Countess of, 1789-1849; usage: Countess of Blessington; Lady Blessington) Ency. Britannica, 15th ed. (Blessington, Marguerite, countess of (b. Sept. 1, 1789, d. June 4, 1849)) NUCMC data from Historical Society of Washington, D.C. for D'Orsay correspondence, 1834-1842 (Lady B) The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 1969: volume 3, page 388 (Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, née Power (1789-1849); wrote fiction, non-fiction, biography and criticism) Oxford DNB, viewed online July 28, 2017 (Gardiner [née Power; other married name Farmer], Marguerite [Margaret], countess of Blessington (1789-1849); author; born 1 September 1789 Knockbrit, near Clonmel, co. Tipperary, Ireland; married Captain Maurice St Leger Farmer 7 March 1804; three months later she returned to her father's house at Clonmel; in 1807 she moved to Cahir and then in 1809 to Dublin; married Charles John Gardiner, second Viscount Mountjoy and first earl of Blessington 16 February 1818; on her marriage she changed both her birth name and surname: Margaret Farmer became Marguerite, countess of Blessington; lived at 11 St. James's Square, Seamore Place, Park Lane, Gore House Kensington; fled to Paris 14 April 1849 to escape her creditors; lived in the rue de Cirque, near the Champs Elysées; died 4 June 1849 at age 59; buried at Chambourcy, near St Germain-en-Laye) |
| Associated language | eng |
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