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See also:BLESSINGTON, See also:MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF (1789-1849) , Irish novelist and See also:miscellaneous writer, daughter of See also:Edmund See also:Power, a small landowner, was See also:born near See also:Clonmel, Co. See also:Tipperary, See also:Ireland, on the 1st of See also:September 1789. Her childhood was made unhappy by her See also:father's See also:character and poverty, 'and her See also:early womanhood wretched by her compulsory See also:marriage at the See also:age of fifteen to a See also:Captain See also:Maurice St Leger See also:Farmer, whose drunken habits brought him at last as a debtor to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:bench See also:prison, where, in See also:October 1817, he died. His wife had See also:left him some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time before, and in See also:February 1818 she married See also:Charles See also:John See also:Gardiner, See also:earl of Blessington. Of rare beauty, See also:charm and wit, she was no less distinguished for her generosity and for the extravagant tastes which she shared with her See also:husband, which resulted in encumbering his estates with a load of See also:debt. In the autumn of 1822 they went abroad, spent four months of the next See also:year at See also:Genoa in See also:close intimacy with See also:Byron, and -remained on the See also:continent till See also:Lord Blessington's See also:death+in May 1829. Some time before this they had been joined by See also:Count D'Orsay, who in 1827 married See also:Lady Harriet Gardiner, Lord Blessington's only daughter by a former wife. D'Orsay, who had soon separated from his wife, now accompanied Lady Blessington to See also:England and lived with her till her death. Their See also:home, first at Seamore See also:Place, and afterwards See also:Gore See also:House, See also:Kensington, became a centre of attraction for whatever was distinguished in literature, learning, See also:art, See also:science and See also:fashion. After her husband's death she supplemented her diminished income by contributing to various See also:periodicals as well as by See also:writing novels. She was for some years editor of The See also:Book of Beauty and The Keepsake, popular annuals of the See also:day. In 1834 she published her Conversations with Lord Byron.
Her Idler in See also:Italy (1839-184o), and Idler in See also:France (1841) were popular for their See also:personal See also:gossip and See also:anecdote, descriptions of nature and sentiment. Early in 1849, Count D'Orsay left Gore House to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape his creditors; the See also:furniture and decorations were sold, and Lady Blessington joined the count in See also:Paris, where she died on the 4th of See also:June 1849.
Her See also:Literary See also:Life and See also:Correspondence (3 vols.), edited by R. R. See also:Madden, appeared in 1855. Her portrait was painted in 18o8 by See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence.
End of Article: BLESSINGTON, MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF (1789-1849)
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