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Marguerite Power (Countess of Blessington)
(Born: September 1, 1789 - Died: June 4, 1849)
Irish novelist, famous as a London socialite. She befriended N. P. Willis when he visited England in 1834. Willis attended a salon at her London residence of Seamore Place. (Their initial encounter is described by Willis in the New-York Mirror for March 7, 1835, vol. XII, no. 36, front page. In reprinting the letter in Pencillings by the Way, it is dated May 1834.) In Poe’s tale “Lionizing,” which is a quiz on Willis, the Countess appears as the Dutchess of Bless-my-soul.
- Review of The Governesss (January 1840, text “A” — Burton’s) (A short review)
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- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
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