Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Chatterton
Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Chatterton, Lady Chatterton (née Iremonger; other married name Dering] (11 November 1806– 6 February 1876), was a British traveler and author.
Lady Chatterton was born at 24 Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London, on 11 November 1806, the only child of the Rev. Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, and Harriett Gambier, youngest sister of Admiral Lord James Gambier. This was the second marriage for Iremonger, who died on 6 January 1830. On 3 August 1824 she married Sir William Abraham Chatterton of Castle Mahon, County Cork.
Lady Chatterton's first book, Aunt Dorothy's Tales, was published anonymously in two volumes in 1837. Two years later came Rambles in the South of Ireland, whose first edition sold out in a few weeks. After this she wrote many tales, novels, poems, and accounts of travels under the name Georgiana Chatterton. Cardinal John Henry Newman praised the refinement of thought in her later fiction, but more recently her works have been called "uniformly unmemorable".
The Great Irish Famine in 1845–1851 deprived her husband of his rents. They retired to a small house at Bloxworth, Dorset, until 1852, when they moved to Rolls Park, Essex. and Sir William died there on 5 August 1855. On 1 June 1859 the widow married a fellow novelist Edward Heneage Dering (born 1827), youngest son of John Dering, rector of Pluckley, Kent, and prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, who had retired from the army in 1851. They took up residence in Baddesley Clinton Hall, where Dering took to wearing 17th-century costume. Twenty years her junior, he was the author of the novels Lethelier and A Great Sensation (1862). Within six years of their marriage Dering entered the Roman Catholic Church. She herself wavered, but after a correspondence with William Bernard Ullathorne, bishop of Birmingham, she also converted in August 1875.
She died at Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, on 6 February 1876.
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