Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett
German writer and biographer
Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett | |
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 Lady Blennerhassett | |
| Born | 19 February 1843 Munich |
| Died | 11 February 1917 Munich |
| Nationality | German |
Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett (19 February 1843 – 11 February 1917) was a German writer and biographer.
Life
Countess Charlotte Julia von Leyden was born in Munich in 1843. She met Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet in 1870 and married him on 9 June of the same year. The new Lady Blennerhassett took to writing, and her most noted work was a biography of Madame de Staël.[1] This was published in Germany in three volumes. After this she wrote a number of other biographies including one of Mary, Queen of Scots,[2] and two chapters for Volume X of The Cambridge Modern History, published in 1907.
Her children included Sir Arthur Charles Francis Bernard Blennerhassett, 5th Baronet, and Marie Galway.
Blennerhassett died in Munich in 1917.
Selected publications
- Frau von Staël, ihre Freunde und ihre Bedeutung in Politik und Literatur. Berlin 1887–1889.
- Madame de Staël, her friends and her influence in politics and literature. 1889
- Talleyrand. 1894. (orig. German version)
- Talleyrand. 1894, trans. from the German by Frederick Clarke
- Maria Stuart, Königin von Schottland, 1542–1587; nach den neuesten Forschungen und Veröffentlichungen aus Staatsarchiven dargestellt. 1902.
- Chateaubriand : Romantik und die Restaurationsepoche in Frankreich. 1903.
- John Henry Kardinal Newman: ein Beitrag zur religiösen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gegenwart. Berlin 1904.
- Die Jungfrau von Orleans. 1906.
- Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon. 1910.
- Streiflichter. 1911. (trans. as Sidelights)
- Sidelights. 1913, trans. from the German by Edith Gülcher[3]
References
- ^ D. C. Lathbury, ‘Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland, fourth baronet (1839–1909)’, rev. Josef L. Altholz, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 Jan 2016
- ^ Roland Hill (1 January 2000). Lord Acton. Yale University Press. p. 483. ISBN 978-0-300-12980-9.
- ^ "Review of Sidelights by Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett, trans. by Edith Gülcher". The Athenaeum (4477): 130. 16 August 1913.
External links
- Pachtner, Laura (2020). Lady Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843–1917) : Katholisch, kosmopolitisch, kämpferisch. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 720. ISBN 978-3-525-31097-7. OCLC 1132252991.
- "Charlotte Julia Blennerhassett (1843–1917): nom d'alliance". Bibliothèque nationale de France, data.bnf.fr.
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