Marie Hay

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Marie Hay, Baroness von Hindenburg

Agnes Blanche Marie Freifrau von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg (nee Hay-Drummond ) (born December 6, 1873 , † December 13, 1938 ) was an English writer . She made her publications under the short name Marie Hay .

Life

Her father was George Robert Hay-Drummond, Viscount Dupplin, eldest son of George Hay, 12th Earl of Kinnoull . Her mother was Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Hay-Drummond (nee Duff). From her mother's third marriage to Sir Alfred Cooper, she had three half-sisters and two half-brothers. She is a great-great-granddaughter of King William IV.

The parents divorced shortly after she was born and she grew up with her grandmother, the Countess of Kinnoull. She spent part of her childhood in Paris and part of her old Scottish family mansion at Dupplin Castle in Perthshire .

Agnes Blanche Marie married on February 21, 1903, Herbert von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg , nephew of Paul von Hindenburg . Her husband's diplomatic activities brought her to Stuttgart, Stockholm, Munich, The Hague, Rome and Switzerland, where she undertook extensive studies as the basis of her biographical historical novels.

Their marriage resulted in a daughter, Marie von Beneckendorff and Hindenburg (born December 25, 1903).

Works (selection)

  • An unrequited loyalty the life of Edward Somerset, Earl of Glamorgan, Marquess of Worcester, (1901)
  • A German Pompadour being the extraordinary history of Wilhelmine von Grävenitz, a narrative of the eighteenth century, (1909)
  • The winter queen , being the unhappy history of Elizabeth Stuart, electress palatine, queen of Bohemia; a romance, (1910)
  • The story of a Swiss poet , a study of Gottfried Keller 's life and works, (1920)
  • Mas'aniello , a Neapolitan Tragedy
  • The Evil Vineyard
  • HC Andersen : Danmarks og hele verdens eventyrdigte
  • Madame Dame Dianne de Poytiers  : la grande seneschale de Normandie Duchesse de Valentinois
German translations
  • Marie Hay: A German Pompadour, Wilhelmine Countess von Graevenitz , J. Aigner Verlag, 1959
  • The Winter Queen : The novel by Elisabeth Stuart Countess Palatine near the Rhine, Queen of Bohemia, Verlag Gustav Kiepenheuer, (1935)
  • The Mas'aniello Conspiracy: A Neapolitan . tragedy
  • Hindenburg and Hitler : National Hero and National Socialism

literature

  • Gertrude Atherton: Marie Hay, Intellectual Romantic. The North American Review, Volume 193, March 1, 1911. ( archive.org )
  • Arthur Charles Fox-Davies: Armorial Families. Part 1, Jack, 1895. ( Google Books )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The life of Edward Somerset, Earl of Glamorgan, Marquess of Worcester (1901)
  2. ↑ being the extraordinary history of Wilhelmine von Graevenitz, a narrative of the eighteenth century (1909)
  3. ↑ being the unhappy history of Elizabeth Stuart, electress palatine, queen of Bohemia; a romance (1910)
  4. ↑ a study of Gottfried Keller's life and works (1920)
  5. ↑ J. Aigner Verlag 1959
  6. ↑ Deutsche Verlag Anst., 1937
  7. ↑ The novel by Elisabeth Stuart Countess Palatine near the Rhine, Queen of Bohemia
  8. ↑ National hero and National Socialism
personal data
SURNAME Hay, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg, Agnes Blanche Marie Freifrau von; Hay-Drummond, Agnes Blanche Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1873
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1938