Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The Right Honourable

The Countess of Blessington
The Right Honourable; The Countess of Blessington
	1822 Painting by Thomas Lawrence
Born	Margaret Power; 1 September 1789; Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died	4 June 1849 (aged 59); Paris, France
Occupation	Novelist, miscellaneous writer
Notable works	Conversations with Lord Byron (1834)
Spouse	Cpt. Maurice St. Leger Farmer ; (m. 1804–1817; his death) ; Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington ; (m. 1818–1829; his death)

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (née Power; 1 September 1789 – 4 June 1849), was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess.^[1] She became acquainted with Lord Byron in Genoa and wrote a book about her conversations with him.^[2]

^ The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 104.
^ Conversations with Byron, 1834.

[Feminist-1] The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 104.

[2] Conversations with Byron, 1834.

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The Right Honourable The Countess of Blessington
1822 Painting by Thomas Lawrence
Born	Margaret Power (1789-09-01)1 September 1789 Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died	4 June 1849(1849-06-04) (aged 59) Paris, France
Occupation	Novelist, miscellaneous writer
Notable works	Conversations with Lord Byron (1834)
Spouse	Cpt. Maurice St. Leger Farmer (m. 1804–1817; his death) Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (m. 1818–1829; his death)

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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