biography
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Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of
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| (1789–1849)
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| biography:
| Writer and socialite, born near Clonmel, Co Tipperary, SC Ireland. After her husband's death (1829), she held a salon at her Kensington mansion, Gore House, where she wrote many sketches of London life, and formed a relationship with the Comte d'Orsay (1801–57). Her best-known work was Conversations with Lord Byron (1834). Her lavish tastes left her deep in debt, and with d'Orsay she fled to Paris (1849), where she died two months later. |
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