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Article: The Countess of Blessington: reading as intimacy, reading as sociability.(Marguerite Gardiner)(Critical essay)
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- June 22, 2008
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When the American journalist Nathaniel Parker Willis visited London in 1834, one of his aims was to acquaint himself with the social and intellectual elite. Since the Countess of Blessington was one of the foremost salonnieres, Willis visited her soon after his arrival. Blessington, recently famous Conversations of Lord Byron (1832/33) and a prolific author of novels, stories, and occasional poems, had just started to edit annuals. She was certainly no "bluestocking" in the style of the Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Vesey, or the Berry sisters. And she never wrote any tracts about female learning, either in the conservative style of Hannah More, or in the revolutionary ...
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Article: MARGARET BLESSINGTON
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);
March 21, 1997 ;
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...Margaret Blessington Aurora Margaret Blessington, 93 years old of Aurora passed away Thursday, March 20 ... Mark, Michael, Lisa, Tina, Steven, Michael and James Blessington. She is also survived by several great grandchildren ...
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