Record Number: 24689

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Lady Charlotte stopped a few days with friends near Winchester, and while there her husband read in The Times '"[...] of a wonderful discovery in the manufacture of iron, made by one Mr. Bessemer, who, by an application of cold blast to pig iron, converts it into material of the quality of wrought iron, without using any fuel, thus superseding puddling etc. Charley was quite excited about it, and read the account aloud to me before we set out on the afternoon walk."'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

15 Aug 1856

Country:

England

Time

daytime

Place:

city: (near) Winchester

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:

Reader:

Charles Schreiber

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1826

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

Lady Charlotte Schreiber

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

article on new method of iron production

Genre:

Technology

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

In the Times

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24689

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:

60

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 60, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=24689, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

Lady Charlotte and her children had inherited from her first husband, John Josiah Guest, the Dowlais Iron Company, so content of article of interest to Lady Charlotte, who had controlled the iron business in the period immediately following her first husband's death, and prior to her eldest son's coming of age.