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Blackwood, Helen Selina, (1807-1867), author and poet

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Alternative name(s):
  • Helen Selina Sheridan (Maiden Name)
  • George Hay Earl of Gifford (Married to)
Surname: Blackwood
Forenames: Helen Selina
Gender: Female
Date: 1807-1867
Biography: ODNB link for Blackwood, Helen Selina (1807-1867) nee Sheridan, author and poet, wife of Earl of Gifford
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P163721 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P2677 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Helen Selina Blackwood
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp, literary MSS and papers
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D1071 F/A
NRA 5700 Blackwood

See PRONI Guide to Sources for Women's History (1993) pp3-4
2
1852: corresp with Sir Robert Hay
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng hist c 1074
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
3
letters (10) from JG Lockhart
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS 20437
See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
4
1862-63: letters to RB Sheridan and Lord Tweeddale
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 42768