Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett

Lady Blennerhassett
Lady Blennerhassett
	Lady Blennerhassett
Born	Countess Charlotte Julia von Leyden; 19 February 1843; Munich
Died	11 February 1917; Munich
Occupation	writer
Nationality	German
Genre	non-fiction
Spouse	Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet
Children	2 (including Marie, Lady Galway)

Charlotte Julia, Lady Blennerhassett (née Countess Julia von Leyden; 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.

Selected publications

Frau von Staël, ihre Freunde und ihre Bedeutung in Politik und Literatur. Berlin 1887–1889.
- Madame de Staël, her friends and her influence in politics and literature. 1889
Talleyrand. 1894. (orig. German version)
- Talleyrand. 1894, trans. from the German by Frederick Clarke
Maria Stuart, Königin von Schottland, 1542–1587; nach den neuesten Forschungen und Veröffentlichungen aus Staatsarchiven dargestellt. 1902.
Chateaubriand : Romantik und die Restaurationsepoche in Frankreich. 1903.
John Henry Kardinal Newman: ein Beitrag zur religiösen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gegenwart. Berlin 1904.
Die Jungfrau von Orleans. 1906.
Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon. 1910.
Streiflichter. 1911. (trans. as Sidelights)
- Sidelights. 1913, trans. from the German by Edith Gülcher^[3]

References

^ D. C. Lathbury, ‘Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland, fourth baronet (1839–1909)’, rev. Josef L. Altholz, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 Jan 2016
^ Roland Hill (1 January 2000). Lord Acton. Yale University Press. p. 483. ISBN 978-0-300-12980-9.
^ "Review of Sidelights by Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett, trans. by Edith Gülcher". The Athenaeum (4477): 130. 16 August 1913.

External links

Pachtner, Laura (2020). Lady Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843–1917) : Katholisch, kosmopolitisch, kämpferisch. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. p. 720. ISBN 978-3-525-31097-7. OCLC 1132252991.
"Charlotte Julia Blennerhassett (1843–1917): nom d'alliance". Bibliothèque nationale de France, data.bnf.fr.

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[1] D. C. Lathbury, ‘Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland, fourth baronet (1839–1909)’, rev. Josef L. Altholz, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 Jan 2016

[Hill2000-2] Roland Hill (1 January 2000). Lord Acton. Yale University Press. p. 483. ISBN 978-0-300-12980-9.

[3] "Review of Sidelights by Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett, trans. by Edith Gülcher". The Athenaeum (4477): 130. 16 August 1913.

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