| Evidence: | 14 June 1854 [following account of morning spent sitting for portrait to Watts, and attending two business meetings]:
'I got a hasty luncheon and started alone for my train to go to Harrow. Arrived there at 5, and made my way to Mr. Rendall's house, where I waited till past 6 in his drawing room for Augustus [one of Lady Charlotte's sons, a pupil at Harrow] to come out from school. I employed myself looking at H. Coleridge's biography which is a melancholy one'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 14 Jun 1854 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening: c.6 pm | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Harrow specific address: 'Mr Rendall's house,' Harrow School location in dwelling: Drawing room |
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| Reader: | Lady Charlotte Guest |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 19 May 1812 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Businesswoman in charge of Dowlais Iron Company |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | biography of Hartley Coleridge |
| Genre: | Poetry, Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 24682 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 38 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 38, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24682, accessed: 03 May 2024 | |
| Lady Charlotte Guest took the name Schreiber on her second marriage, to Charles Schreiber, in 1855. |
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