Martha Blount

(1690-1763)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Blount, Martha (1690-1762) Friend of Alexander Pope DNB: Blount, Martha (1690-1763), Roman Catholic gentlewoman LBT ID: MaBloun1763	B/BAP: 1690-06-15 DIED: 1763-07-12
SOURCES: DNB
Alexander Pope's intimate friend, to whom he left a substantial legacy.
REFERENCES TO Martha Blount: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1: ¶ 10 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Bowles and Pope Found 1: ¶ 3 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 8 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 22 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, “Lord Byron, his Biography, &c. [Concluded]” in Literary Gazette (11 February 1832) 88-89 Found 1: ¶ 3 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVIII Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 13