Georgiana Chatterton

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Portrait of Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Chatterton, ca.1859

Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Chatterton (born November 11, 1806 in London as Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Iremonger , † February 6, 1876 in Warwickshire , England ) was a British writer who was best known for her travelogues .

Life

Chatterton was born as the daughter of Reverend Lascelles Iremonger and his wife Harriet (née Gambier). Through her mother, she was a niece of Admiral James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier .

In 1824 she married Sir William Abraham Chatterton (d. 1855) and in 1859 the second marriage to the 20 years younger writer Edward Heneage Dering (1826-1892), with whom she later lived in Baddesley Clinton , where she also died. Like her second husband, she converted to Catholicism.

Her first work Aunt Dorothy's Tales appeared anonymously in 1837; her breakthrough was Rambles in the South of Ireland , the first edition of which sold out within a few weeks. In her Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections she describes a trip to Germany in 1836 and describes her impressions of Saxony , Thuringia and Hesse .

Works

  • Aunt Dorothy's Tales anonymous, 1837
  • Rambles in the South of Ireland, 1839.
  • A Good Match, The Heiress of Drosberg, and The Cathedral Chorister 1840
  • Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections, 1841
  • "English lady visited Witzenhausen." Translation of the report on Witzenhausen by Nadine Erler , published in the Witzenhäuser Allgemeine, January 9, 2019, page 7.
  • The Pyrenees, with Excursions into Spain, 1843
  • Allanston, or the Infidel, 1843
  • Lost Happiness, or the Effects of a Lie a tale, 1845
  • Reflections on the History of the Kings of Judah, 1848
  • Extracts from Jean Paul F. Richter, 1851
  • Compensation anonymous, 1856
  • Life and its Realities, 1857
  • The Reigning Beauty, 1858
  • Memorials of Admiral Lord Gambier, 1861
  • Selections from the Works of Plato, 1862
  • The Heiress and her Lovers, 1863
  • Leonore, a Tale, and other Poems, 1864
  • Quagmire ahead privately printed, 1864
  • Grey's Court edited by Lady Chatterton, 1865
  • Oswald of Deira a drama, 1867
  • A Plea for Happiness and Hope privately printed, 1867
  • Country Coteries, 1868
  • The Oak original tales and sketches by Sir J. Bowring, Lady Chatterton, and others, 1869
  • Lady May a pastoral poem, 1869
  • The Lost Bride 1872
  • Won at last, 1874
  • Extracts from Aristotle's Work privately printed, 1875
  • Misgiving privately printed, 1875
  • Convictions privately printed, 1875

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SURNAME Chatterton, Georgiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chatterton, Henrietta Georgiana Marcia (full name); Lascelles Iremonger, Henrietta Georgiana Marcia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1876
Place of death Warwickshire , England