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Lady Blessington has originally drawn the attention of the contemporary society because of her unparalleled beauty and her sexual scandals. As a Saloniére and female author of her time, she used skillfully her reputation to penetrate the publishing industry and the intellectual world. The author Foteini Avram argues that through the closer study of the many tasks that Lady Blessington undertook is that each of these tasks depended for its success on the others.

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Foteini Avram, M.A.: Studium der Anglistik, Amerikanistik und der Kunstgeschichte an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

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