Blessington
MARGARET, COUNTESS OF, an Irish author, born near Clonmel, Sept. 1, 1789. She was the daughter of Edmund Power, an improvident man of good family, and at the age of 15 was married to a Captain Farmer, who died in 1817; and a few months after his death his widow married Charles John Gardiner, Earl of Blessington. In 1822 the they went abroad, residing there till the Earl's death in 1829, when Lady Blessington took up her abode in Gore House, Kensington. Her residence be- BLICHER came the fashionable resort for all the celebrities of the time. She contributed to the "New Monthly Magazine," "Conversations with Lord Byron"; wrote numerous novels, including "The Belle of a Season," and the "Victims of Society"; and acted as editor for several years of "Heath's Book of Beauty," the "Keepsake," and the "Gems of Beauty." She died in Paris, June 4, 1849.