Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett

Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett

Lady Blennerhassett
Born 19 February, 1843
Munich
Died 11 February, 1917
Munich
Nationality Germany

Charlotte Blennerhassett, 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 in 1870 and married him on 9 June of the same year. He was the fourth of the Blennerhassett baronets. The new Lady Blennerhassett took to writing, and her most noted work was a biography of Madame de Stael.[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.

Blennerhassett died in Munich in 1917.

References

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

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