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 Germany writer and biographer.

Life

Blennerhassett was born in Munich in 1843. She met Sir Rowland Blennerhassett in 1870 and she married him on 9 June 1870. He was the fourth of the Blennerhassett baronets. 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 Mary, Queen of Scots.^[2]

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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