Baroness E C de Calabrella 1793 - 1857
August 19, 2009
Baroness E C de
Calabrella 1793? -
1857
was a British
Socialite,
authoress and poet.
Calabrella was a friend of Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner Countess of Blessington, Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d’Orsay, and Frederick Hervey Foster Quin,
Calabrella (Mrs. Thomas) was married to Captain Thomas Jenkins (who she met through Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner Countess of Blessington), her third marriage (the first to a Mr. Lee, and the second to a Mr. de Blaquierre).
Calabrella had acquired her own title by the purchase of some land abroad. Calabrella lived for some time in Abbeville, and then after her second husband’s death, she moved to Paris.
Calabrella was part of
the
Prince Regent’s set
(George
IV), and
she was the sister
of
Edward Hughes Ball
(known as Golden Ball Hughes due to his vast
fortune),
Calabrella wrote The Land of Promise, The Prism of Imagination, The Prism of Thought, The Double Oath, The Cousins, The Tempter and the Tempted, The Venetian Glass, The Ladies Science of Etiquette, various character sketches, and she edited The Court Journal Library, Evenings at Haddon Hall, and she also wrote poetry,