Record Number: 24686

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

22 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor read a fairy tale, the Golden Beetle, and Charles Schreiber slept in an armchair. In due time came dinner [...] Afterwards we commenced whist, but when the evening paper came in we laid aside the cards and listened with sad interest to the account of the battle and the long list of killed and wounded.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

22 Nov 1854

Country:

England

Time

evening

Place:

city: Cambridge
specific address: Trinity College

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Listener:

Lady Charlotte Guest, Ivor Guest, Monty Guest, Charles Schreiber

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

report of Crimea battle [?Inkermann]

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

22 November 1854

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24686

Source:

Print

Author:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber

Editor:

Earl of Bessborough

Title:

Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1952

Vol:

n/a

Page:

43

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 43, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24686, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Not clear which of persons present (if any) was reader. Battle of Inkermann (in Crimea conflict) took place 5 November 1854. Lady Charlotte Guest took the name Schreiber on her second marriage, to Charles Schreiber, in 1855. At the time of this journal entry, Charles Schreiber was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who had previously been employed by Lady Charlotte as resident tutor to her son Ivor.