The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington - Volume 2

R. R. Madden's 1855 three-volume biography of the countess of Blessington documents her brilliant literary salon and her eventual financial ruin.

1. Preliminary notice of the correspondence of Lady Blessington; 2. Notice of Sir William Gell, and sketch of his character by James Ramsay, Esq.; 3. Letters of Sir William Gell to Lady Blessington; 4. Letters of Sir William Gell to Lady Blessington; 5. Letters of Sir William Gell to Lady Blessington; 6. Notice of Sir William Drummond; 7. Notices of Charles Reilly, Esq., Surgeon, R.N.; 8. Notice of the Honourable Richard Keppel Craven, and Margravine of Anspach; 9. Notice and letters of Thomas James Mathias, Esq.; 10. Notice and letters of Coun Matuschewitz; 11. Notice and letters of the Duke D'Ossuna; 12. Notice and letters of Monsieur Eugene Sue; 13. Notice and letters of Casimer Delavigne; 14. Letter from John Auldjo, Esq., to Lady Blessington; 15. Notice and letters of the Countess Guiccioli, now Mdme. la Marquise de Boissy; 16. Notice and letters of L. E. L.; 17. Notice and letters of the Contessa America Vespucci, Mrs. Sigourney, Miss Sheridan, Mrs. Abell, the Betsy Balcombe of St. Helena, Miss Roberts, Mrs. Romer; 18. Notice of Walter Savage Landor; 19. Letters of W. S. Landor to Lady Blessington; 20. Notice of John Forster, Esq.; 21. Notice and letters of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.