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Isa Blagden
Isa or Isabella Jane Blagden (30 June 1816 or 1817 – 20 January 1873) was an English-language novelist and poet born in the East Indies or India, who spent much of her life among the English community in Florence.
==Life==
Blagden's father's first name is given as Thomas in the records of the Florentine Protestant cemetery and her nationality as Swiss, but she was widely thought to be the illegitimate offspring of an English father and an Indian mother. This seemed to be confirmed by an Oriental appearance.〔''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 102.〕 There is circumstantial evidence that she was born in Calcutta, the natural daughter of one Thomas Bracken and of a Eurasian, possibly named Blagden.〔 "Isa Blagden", in: ''The Brownings' Correspondence''. (Retrieved 13 May 2015. )〕 Little is known firmly about her before she arrived in 1850 in Florence, where she soon became a feature of the English community. She was probably educated at Louisa Agassiz's Ladies School near Regent's Park, London, which was favoured by English parents in India.
In Florence Blagden had a comfortable income (possibly an allowance from her father and later his estate) and was remembered as a kind, generous friend, notably to the Browning, Bulwer-Lytton and Trollope families.〔Scott Lewis, "Blagden, Isabella (1816/17–1873)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004). Online: (Retrieved 13 May 2015. Pay-walled. )〕 She is said to have occupied "a unique place in the Brownings’ circle by virtue of her intimacy with both poets."〔 She may have been romantically involved with Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the poet son of the novelists Edward Bulwer-Lytton and his wife Rosina, after nursing him in 1857.〔
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