Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett
Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett was a German writer and biographer.Life
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. 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, and Marie Galway.
Blennerhassett died in Munich in 1917.Selected publications
- . Berlin 1887–1889.
- * Madame de Staël, her friends and her influence in politics and literature. 1889
- . 1894.
- * . 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.
- . 1903.
- . Berlin 1904.
- . 1906.
- . 1910.
- . 1911.
- * . 1913, trans. from the German by Edith Gülcher
