Countess Charlotte Julia von Leyden was born in
Munich in 1843. She met
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet in 1870 and married him on 9 June of the same year. The new Lady Blennerhassett took to writing, and her most noted work was a biography of
Madame de Staël. This was published in Germany in three volumes. After this she wrote a number of other biographies including one of
Mary, Queen of Scots, and two chapters for Volume X of
The Cambridge Modern History, published in 1907. Her children included Sir Arthur Charles Francis Bernard Blennerhassett, 5th
Baronet, and
Marie Galway. Blennerhassett died in Munich in 1917. ==Selected publications==