Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett

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.

D. C. Lathbury, ‘Blennerhassett, Sir Rowland, fourth baronet (1839–1909)’, rev. Josef L. Altholz, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31926, accessed 6 Jan 2016] This was published in Germany in three volumes. After this she wrote a number of other biographies including one of Mary, Queen of Scots,{{cite book|author=Roland Hill|title=Lord Acton|url=https://archive.org/details/lordacton0000hill|url-access=registration|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-12980-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/lordacton0000hill/page/483 483]}} 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.

• [https://archive.org/details/frauvonstalihre00unkngoog/page/n5 Frau von Staël, ihre Freunde und ihre Bedeutung in Politik und Literatur]. Berlin 1887–1889.
• Madame de Staël, her friends and her influence in politics and literature. 1889
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100779023 Talleyrand]. 1894. (orig. German version)
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007684444 Talleyrand]. 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.
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001793638 Chateaubriand : Romantik und die Restaurationsepoche in Frankreich]. 1903.
• [https://archive.org/details/a547964100blenuoft/page/n9 John Henry Kardinal Newman: ein Beitrag zur religiösen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Gegenwart]. Berlin 1904.
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005973532 Die Jungfrau von Orleans]. 1906.
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006591304 Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon]. 1910.
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010387575 Streiflichter]. 1911. (trans. as Sidelights)
• [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005872719 Sidelights]. 1913, trans. from the German by Edith Gülcher{{cite journal|title=Review of Sidelights by Charlotte, Lady Blennerhassett, trans. by Edith Gülcher|journal=The Athenaeum|page=130|issue= 4477|date=16 August 1913|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c109524956;view=1up;seq=168}}

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• {{cite book |last=Pachtner |first=Laura |date=2020 |title=Lady Charlotte Blennerhassett (1843–1917) : Katholisch, kosmopolitisch, kämpferisch |location=Göttingen |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |page=720 |isbn=978-3-525-31097-7 |oclc=1132252991 }}
• {{cite web|title=Charlotte Julia Blennerhassett (1843–1917): nom d'alliance|website=Bibliothèque nationale de France, data.bnf.fr|url=http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119558996}}

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