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Died 11 February 1917, Munich, Germany Books Sidelights, Madame de Staël: Her Frien, Madame de Staël: Her Frien | ||
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. This was published in Germany in three volumes. After this she wrote a number of other biographies including one of Mary, Queen of Scots, 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.