Marie Blaze de Bury

Marie Blaze de Bury
Born1813
Oban
Died1894
NationalityBritish
Occupationpolitical writer
SpouseHenri Blaze de Bury [de]

Marie Blaze de Bury or Baroness Rose Blaze de Bury or Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury; published as Hamilton Murray; and Arthur Dudley (1813–1894) was a Scottish-born political writer and salonniere. She was notably opposed to the rule of Napoleon and there were reports that she was an agent for Austria or England.

Life

Bury was born in Oban in about 1813. Her parent or guardian was an army officer named William Stuart,[1] but one rumour was that her father was the transforming statesman Lord Henry Brougham. Her last name was Stuart or Stewart.[2] When she was nine she was sent to France where she completed her education.

Illustration from All for Greed (1868)

She used the nom de plume of the English-sounding name of "Arthur Dudley" and her work nearly always contained a political aspect.[2] She wrote in French,[3] English and German. It was said that she may have been an agent for Austria or England but this is not substantiated. She was strongly opposed to the rule of Napoleon.[2] She wrote Mildred Vernon; a tale of Parisian life in the last days of the monarchy under the pseudonym Hamilton Murray in 1848.[4] In the following year she wrote Léonie Vermont: A Story of the Present Time which was another three volume novel.[5] The next three volume novel was Falkenburg: A Tale of the Rhine which was published in 1851.[6]

Her works include Travel to Austria, Hungary and Germany During the Events of 1848 and 1849 which was published in 1851.[7] In 1852 she published the biography and letters of the 17th century philosopher Princess Palatine.[8]

She wrote for the magazine Once a Week about the Salons of Paris. She also wrote for Revue du Des Mondes and Blackwood's Magazine.[1]

In 1868 her novel All for Greed was published in two volumes.[9] In the following year she published her novel, All for Love.[1]

Private life

In 1844 she married the writer Henri Blaze de Bury [de] who she had met in 1840. They lived in Paris.[1] When she died in 1894 an obituary published in The Times noted her skills which set her apart from other talented women.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Sutherland, John (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-8047-1842-4.
  2. ^ a b c Egloff, Rachel Margaret (February 2020). "A Study of the Life and Works of Blaze de Bury: A Counter-Narrative of a Transcultural Woman's Involvement in Nineteenth Century European Politics" (PDF). PhD Thesis for Oxford Brookes University.
  3. ^ "Rose Blaze de Bury (1813-1894)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  4. ^ Bury?, Hamilton MURRAY (pseud? [i e Baroness Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de] (1848). Mildred Vernon; a tale of Parisian life in the last days of the monarchy. London.
  5. ^ "At the Circulating Library Author Information: Baroness Blaze de Bury". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  6. ^ Murray, Hamilton (1851). Falkenburg: A Tale of the Rhine; in Three Volumes. ... Colburn and Company.
  7. ^ "Blaze de Bury, Rose (?–1894) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
  8. ^ Bury (Baronne.), Marie Pauline Rose Stewart Blaze de (1852). Memoirs of the Princess Palatine, Princess of Bohemia: Including Her Correspondence with the Great Men of Her Day, and Memoirs of the Court of Holland Under the Princes of Orange. Richard Bentley. ISBN 978-1-4212-6182-9.
  9. ^ Blaze de Bury, Marie Pauline Rose (1868). All for Greed. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. London, Virtue and Co., 26, Ivy Lane; New York: Virtue and Yorston ; New York.
  10. ^ "Obituary", The Times, 34173, 29 January 1894, p. 6.