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Record 27828

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[following journal entry for 19 February 1889] 'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanche, dined and read to her the article on Lord Beaconsfield in the Quarterly Review. Lady Charlotte's comment was: "This I am sure could have been written by no one but Henry Layard." It was so.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 19 Feb 1889
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Blanche Countess of Bessborough
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1847
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Lady Charlotte Schreiber (reader's mother, b.1812)
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Henry Layard
Title: article on Lord Beaconsfield
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Biography, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: In the Quarterly Review
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27828  
Source - Print  
  Author: Lady Charlotte Schreiber
  Editor: Earl of Bessborough
  Title: Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from her Journals 1853-1891
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1952
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 200
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from her Journals 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 200, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27828, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Henry Layard was Lady Charlotte's son-in-law, married to her daughter Enid. Blanche had married Edward, 8th earl of Bessborough, in 1875.

 

 

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