German writer and biographer
Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett |
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Lady Blennerhassett |
Born | 19 February 1843 Munich |
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Died | 11 February 1917 Munich |
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Nationality | German |
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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.
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