Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury

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Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury , b. Stuart (* 1813 in Oban (Scotland) ; † 1894 ) was a French and English writer from an old Scottish family.

life and work

She was raised by Army Officer William Stuart, but there was a presumption that she was an illegitimate daughter of Lord Brougham . As a child of 9 years she came to France, where she received her education so that she published her first works in French. At the age of 18, under the pseudonym Arthur Dudley , she began publishing a number of short stories and critical essays in the Revue de Paris and the Revue des Deux Mondes that attracted attention. She established her literary reputation in France through some political articles, and in particular through her Essai sur Lord Byron .

After her marriage to Baron Henri Blaze de Bury in 1844, she lived mostly in Paris and ran a literary salon there. She took up the language of her native country again and published Molière and the French drama (1846) and the novels Mildred Vernon: A tale of Parisian life in the last days of the monarchy (3 vols., London 1848) and Germania (1850), the latter of which she herself translated into French. She described a journey undertaken from 1848-49 in Voyage en Autriche, en Hongrie et en Allemagne (Paris 1851; German von Alvensleben, Weimar 1851). This is followed by Falkenburg: a tale of the Rhine (3 vols., London 1851; Ger. Bremen 1852), the Memoirs of the Princess Palatine of Bohemia (London 1853), the life of the daughter of Jacob I and wife of the winter king Friedrich V. . containing, as well as the novels All for greed (2 vols., London 1868) and Love the avenger (3 vols., London, 1869). Among other things, she exchanged letters with Bismarck .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Blaze de Bury, Marie Pauline Rose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French and English writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Oban (Scotland)
DATE OF DEATH 1894