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
- ↑ 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.