This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière and author. This study …
If Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849)–the “most gorgeous lady” in Dr. Samuel Parr's words– is ever remembered today, it is mostly for her famous literary salon and for her …
RM McAdams - Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
As a young girl living on St. Helena in 1815, Betsy Balcombe met Napoleon Bonaparte. When she learned of the recently defeated emperor's imminent arrival, Betsy feared “a huge …
Abstract" Sowing Seeds of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use of Fairy Tales and Folklore" focuses on the fictional works of nineteenth …