Georgiana Bloomfield, Baroness Bloomfield

Lady Bloomfield Piano Album contains first editions (20 in total) of Frédéric Chopin piano works. Source: Jozef Kapustka - "Chopin i Lady Bloomfield" http://jozef.kapustka.salon24.pl/690681,chopin-i-lady-bloomfield

Georgiana, Lady Bloomfield (née Liddell; 1822–1905), was a British courtier and author.

Life

She was the youngest daughter of Thomas Henry Liddell, first Baron Ravensworth (1775–1885), and his wife, Maria Susannah (c.1773–1845), and sister-in-law to the Marquess of Normanby. She was maid of honour to Queen Victoria until her marriage with John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield, on 4 September 1845. Their marriage was childless. She joined her husband on his diplomatic delegations, to St Petersburg the month after her marriage, to Berlin (1851–60), and to Vienna (1861–71).

Works

Reminiscences of Court and Diplomatic Life (2 vols.), 1883: record of her career of her life as courtier and as the wife of a diplomat. https://archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofc00blooiala
Memoir of Benjamin, Lord Bloomfield, (2 vols.), 1884: memoirs of her father-in-law.
Gleanings of a Long Life, 1902: collection of extracts from her favourite books.

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