Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett

Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett
Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett
	Lady Blennerhassett
Born	19 February 1843; Munich
Died	11 February 1917; Munich
Nationality	German

Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett (19 February 1843 – 11 February 1917) was a German writer and biographer.

Life[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

^ 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[edit]

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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