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Gardiner, Marguerite, (1789-1849), author and hostess

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Alternative name(s):
  • Margaret Power (Maiden Name)
  • Marguerite Farmer (Formerly known as)
  • William Stewart, 1st Earl of Blessington, (1709-1769) (Married to)
Surname: Gardiner
Forenames: Marguerite
Gender: Female
Date: 1789-1849
History: Married 1) 1804-1817 Capt Maurice St. Leger Farmer (d1817); 2) 1818-1829 Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington (1782-1829)
Biography: ODNB link for Gardiner, Marguerite (1789-1849) nee Power, author and hostess, wife of 1st Earl of Blessington
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P162993 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P10968 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Marguerite Gardiner
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1789-1849: papers
Carl H Pforzheimer Library
See Sotheby's sale, 5 May 1919, lot 2740
2
1837-55: papers (70 items)
Princeton University Library
See Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA, 1961
3
1824-49: corresp (28 items)
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
See Index to MSS vol 1
4
letters (80) to William Beattie
Special Collections, The Mitchell Library
Numbered series no 75
NRA 35472 Mitchell
5
1822-33: letters to William Blackwood & Sons
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS.4008, 4036
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
6
1837-49: letters to CE de Michele
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS.Eng.lett.c.668 ff.62-121
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
7
1834-49: letters to Benjamin Disraeli
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Disraeli
NRA 842 Disraeli
8
1834-1838: letters (19) to Lord and Lady Durham
Durham University Library and Collections
JGL (box 22)
NRA 11184 Lambton
9
1836-46: letters (13) from Walter Savage Landor
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Ashley 4889; 5742-5744; B.1066
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
10
1834-49: corresp (146 items) with Lord Lytton
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
DE/K
NRA 4598
11
1833-47: letters to Sir Robert Peel and others
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Index of MSS, IV, 1984