tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post3160114608759419512..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: A Sunday in Hyde Park in 1823Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-66594625641956317162012-02-27T14:41:33.619-05:002012-02-27T14:41:33.619-05:00Nice extract!Nice extract!textilehistorIEhttp://irishhistoricaltextiles.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-83930138735698654782012-02-27T08:27:39.694-05:002012-02-27T08:27:39.694-05:00Thanks for bringing this to our attention.One of ...Thanks for bringing this to our attention.One of the other chapters is of an auction when the contents of a house were auctioned on the premises. About twenty years later, she had to watch her own belongings go under the hammer. Her jointure was based on an estate in Ireland devastated by the potato famine.<br />The Countess of Blessington is a complex character. Like many other women who needed money, she earned it by writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com