Baroness von Tautphoeus

 

Life
1807-1893 [née Jemina Montgomery]; b. Dublin, d. Munich; several novels, set in Bavaria, where she lives with her husband, Baron von Tautphoeus, Chamberlain to the King. The Initials (1850), Cyrilla (1857), Quits (1857), and At Odds (1863). DIW

 

References
Elaine Showalter, A Literature of their Own (1984), gives bio-data: b. Donegal, née Montgomery, dg. land-owner; ed. home, m. 1838, lived in Germany; husband and son d. 1885; best known for The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell, Afterwards Mrs Milton (1849).

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