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Lady Charlotte Schreiber
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : Psalm of Life
'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer?s Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds seems to refresh me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Geoffrey Chaucer : Canterbury Tales
'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds seems to refresh me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Frances Burney : Memoirs
'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley, who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. He had not read it before, and I had not read it since it first came out.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Horace Walpole : unknown
[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Samuel Pepys : Journal
[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have reached the end of the reading of Walpoliana and Pepys' Journal.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Humphry Clinker
November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble, he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like so well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : Sentimental Journey, A
November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble, he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like so well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random
November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble, he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like so well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie : Madame de Sevigne
November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne. Apropos of books, I received two days ago a letter from an American publisher, telling me that M. Lanier had thrown my Mabinogion into a popular form for children and had just completed the work before he died [?] This is very interesting to me. My first number came out in 1839, forty-three years ago.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Walter Scott : Rob Roy
March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present. C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Dickens : Barnaby Rudge
March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present. C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Dickens : Old Curiosity Shop, The
March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present. C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers, The
March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and the Old Curiosity Shop, which, with Pickwick which we read at Ceres, is enough of Dickens for the present. C. S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Frances Burney D'Arblay : Memoirs of Dr Burney
17 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. he had not read it before, and I had not read it since it first came out.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: military intelligence column
16 July 1857: 'Sitting alone at breakfast I took up the paper and saw in the military intelligence that Montague [son]'s regiment (2nd Batt. Rifle Brigade) was under orders for the East. For a moment I felt stupefied, then I dropped to my knees and prayed God to shield him from harm and keep him from evil in the strange land. Then I went upstairs to Charley [husband] and had a hearty cry upon his shoulder'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Newspaper
: report of death of W. Blagrove
1 November 1858: 'Went to Drury lane [theatre] where we had stalls. The Opera was the Maritana, and was pretty enough [...] but I could not help thinking there was some hurry and confusion, and that something must have gone wrong. We read in the paper next morning that poor Blagrove had dropped down dead, as he was proceeding to the orchestra just before the opera began'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Newspaper
Alfred Tennyson : Guinevere
17 July 1859: 'I sat, very sad, in the garden [at Exeter House], took up Tennyson's Guinevere, and was engrossed with it. Arthur is the noblest creature that ever lived in fiction. What a speech is that of his on parting with the Queen. I can never read it without tears.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Kingsley : Hereward
8 February 1875: 'We had an agreeable journey to Folkestone where we took ship [for china-collecting expedition in Europe] [...] I was driven below by the intense cold so I lay down and read, with the greatest interest, my friend Charles Kingsley's Hereward. The subject is laid in my own Lincolnshire, and I know all the scenery he describes o'er well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: Life of Macaulay
'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a great deal. After revelling "in that pleasant life of Macaulay" she started on Pride and Prejudice.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'When not in the curiosity shops, or examining and washing her [ceramic] purchases in the hotel, Lady Charlotte read a great deal. After revelling "in that pleasant life of Macaulay" she started on Pride and Prejudice.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Jane Austen : Persuasion
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
1 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park. I like the first least of all; I think I like the last the best, but I cannot quite make up my mind to whether I am alive to their very great merit. For the epoch at which they appeared, some sixty years ago, they are very remarkable.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Thomas Babington Macaulay : History
2 July 1876, from Brussels: 'After I went to bed I read over that wonderful part of Macaulay's History, the death of Charles II, and was quite excited by it, when I dropped asleep about 1 a.m.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
William Makepeace Thackeray : Esmond
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Dickens : A Tale of Two Cities
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Peregrine Pickle
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Mrs Elliot : Old Court Life in France
18 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, with great delight, Thackeray's Esmond. Since I left England [on ceramics-collecting expedition] I have read Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Mrs Elliot's Old Court Life in France, various in style, all in their way of much interest to me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil, or The Two Nations
27 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] I first heard it on the Sunday. I was already awake and reading Disraeli's Sybil, which has interested us [Lady Charlotte and her husband Charles, a Conservative politician] by reason of the political opinions expressed in it. I finished the book today on the way to Berlin.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Benjamin Disraeli : Sybil, or The Two Nations
27 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] I first heard it on the Sunday. I was already awake and reading Disraeli's Sybil, which has interested us [Lady Charlotte and her husband Charles, a Conservative politician] by reason of the political opinions expressed in it. I finished the book today on the way to Berlin.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
?Benjamin ?Disraeli : Alroy
19 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: Wilhelm Meister
19 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Lecky : History of the Eighteenth Century in England
14 July 1878: 'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gordon's daughter, very mischievous. Presently C[harles]. S[chreiber]. came out, and I read him the commencement of Lecky's History of the XVIIIth Century in England.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
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'After a few days at Canford the Schreibers visited Lord St. Germans, a great invalid, at Port Eliot in Cornwall. Lady Charlotte read to him, sometimes for as long as four hours a day.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Unknown
William Shakespeare : The Merry Wives of Windsor
15 October 1879, from Berlin: 'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been going through the historical plays of Shakespeare from King John to Henry VIII since I came abroad [in September 1879], and hope to read them more carefully again.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
William Shakespeare : history plays
15 October 1879, from Berlin: 'Since dinner I have read the Merry Wives of Windsor with great delight. I have been going through the historical plays of Shakespeare from King John to Henry VIII since I came abroad [in September 1879], and hope to read them more carefully again.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Mrs Edwards, ed. : Selections from the Poets
[following journal entry for 15 October 1879] 'A few days later Lady Charlotte was immersed in Mrs. Edwards' Selections from the Poets.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Harrison Ainsworth : South Sea Bubble
[between journal entries for 20 October and 1 November 1879] 'Lady Charlotte had now for the moment deserted Shakespeare of an evening for Harrison Ainsworth's South Sea Bubble and John Law.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Benjamin Disraeli : pamphlet [featuring descriptions of Syria and Cyprus]
1 November 1879: 'We left Bruges by an early train, the express, joining the steamer at Ostend, and had a beautiful passage home reading Disraeli's pamphlet, which has given me great pleasure, especially by his descriptions of the scenes [in Syria and Cyprus] that Enid [reader's daughter] had been lately visiting.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber
William Makepeace Thackeray : Humorists
[following journal entry for 1 November 1879] 'The next few days [following seven weeks' travels in Europe] were occupied unpacking, after which the Schreibers went to Canford, the railway journey from London being enlivened by Thackeray's Humorists.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: Psalm
25 November 1879, following account of husband's attendance at Conservative Party dinner at Poole, and late return home: 'It must have been 1/2 past 2 ere I was in bed. C[harles]. S[chreiber]. sat by the fire and I read to him, as is now our usual custom. I had just finished a psalm, when we heard some stir in the passage, and found that the butler, who had been providentially up late, had discovered that a room immediately over the children's wing was on fire.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Freeman : 'account of the Bayeux tapestry'
7 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bayeux tapestry, then some of Thackeray's Humorists.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Unknown
William Makepeace Thackeray : Humorists
7 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bayeux tapestry, then some of Thackeray's Humorists.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Miss Freer : Anne of Austria
'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Miss Freer : Henri III
'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Miss Freer : Jeanne d'Albret
'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occupation was typical of her present way of living. She worked at the catalogue of her [ceramics] collections, she superintended the washing of her enamels and the cleaning of her enamel cabinets, she washed china, read Miss Freer's Anne of Austria, Henri III and Jeanne d'Albret and knitted for the benefit of the next expected grandchild.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: Memoirs of the Cambridge A. D. C.
15 March 1880: 'He [Charles Schreiber, reader's husband] canvassed again [as Parliamentary candidate for Poole] from 6 to 9, and I mooned and wept over a book that I had just received, The Memoirs of the Cambridge A[mateur]. D[ramatic]. C[lub]., which had many notices of my dear, dear boy [her son Augustus Guest, 1840-1862], and recalled many memories.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: report of Merthyr Guest's Parliamentary candidacy
15 March 1880: 'I read in this morning's Times that Merthyr [Guest, son by her first marriage] has accepted the requisition of the electors to come forward for his native town of Merthyr-Tydvil as a Liberal [...] There cannot be better men or truer, according to their convictions, than these my belongings. For myself I am different to them all. I hold on to my own Whig principles in domestic policy; but I go with the Conservatives in their eastern and other foreign policy.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Newspaper
Miss Freer : memoir of Henri IV
29 March 1880: 'I have not read very much since I came here, but have finished Miss Freer's memoirs of that bold, bad man, Henri Quatre. When one reads of such doings how can one wonder at the French revolution...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: Life of Marguerite de Valois
29 March 1880: 'I had one of my wakeful nights and read a great deal of the Life of Marguerite de Valois, Philip's Queen.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: report on Liberal petition against return of Charles Schreiber to Parliament
12 April 1880: 'Towards the evening there came a telegram from Mr. Drysdale, drawing attention to a notice in the Echo. C[harles]. S[chreiber] was out, but I sent for the Echo at once, and when it came it was found to contain a paragraph to the effect that the Liberals at Poole had decided to petition against C. S.'s return. I have not had much peace since.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Newspaper
Tobias Smollett : Humphrey Clinker
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Roderick Random
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : A Sentimental Journey
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Tobias Smollett : Peregrine Pickle
19 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some years ago on the Continent, and from what I remember of it, I consider it superior to Roderick Random, which I finished a week or two ago. As to Mr. Bramble [in Humphrey Clinker], he takes me back into the last century, and is quite inimitable. I am now reading the Sentimental Journey, which I do not like quite so well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
John Keats : Endymion
[between journal entries for 26 January and 29 September 1881] 'When Parliament adjourned for a recess in April Charles Schreiber [M.P.] was obliged to go to Liverpool to look after a nephew and niece there: Lady Charlotte accompanied him [...] In an entry in her journal during this visit she says that she has seen enough of it [Liverpool] and never wishes to revisit it [...] A few days laterr she records that she was reading Endymion with much interest, none the less for all the anxiety she felt about Lord Beaconsfield [Benjamin Disraeli]'s health, which was causing great anxiety at the time. He died on April 19.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [on Mme de Sevigne]'
18 November 1881: 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
William Shakespeare :
'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors recommended a sea journey to South Africa. On October 26 [1883] they [Schreiber and his wife, Lady Charlotte] left England in the Hawarden Castle, and on November 14 anchored in Table Bay. Lady Charlotte found solace during an uneventful journey in Shakespeare and Walter Scott.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Walter Scott :
'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors recommended a sea journey to South Africa. On October 26 [1883] they [Schreiber and his wife, Lady Charlotte] left England in the Hawarden Castle, and on November 14 anchored in Table Bay. Lady Charlotte found solace during an uneventful journey in Shakespeare and Walter Scott.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Dickens : The Pickwick Papers
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Stanley : Jewish Church
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Green : History of England
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Junius : Letters
'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres was recommended, and just before Christmas they settled there [...] Lady Charlotte read to him a great deal as they sat out in front of the house. The books she chose included the Pickwick Papers, Stanley's Jewish Church, Green's History of England and Junius' Letters.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Walter Scott : Rob Roy
16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop [...] C.S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Dickens : Barnaby Rudge
16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop [...] C.S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charles Dickens : The Old Curiosity Shop
16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop [...] C.S. likes my reading, and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and restless.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: reports on talks towards Franchise Bill
18 November 1884: 'Ivor [son] went to attend a Conservative meeting summoned by Lord Salisbury to settle to new programme [for the Franchise Bill], invited by Gladstone's overtures of the previous night. I very much feared the Tories would continue obstinate, but, by the papers I have since seen, it would appear that there are hopes of their listening to reason. It is so odd that I should care about this.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Newspaper
Cooke : Memoirs
1 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures in the drawing room, and while she drew I read to her one of those amusing gossiping letters of Horace Walpole on my subjects [i.e. ceramics connoisseurship], about which I have all the Hogarth and all the Wedgwood books here [...] Besides that I have done very little except read some part of Cooke's Memoirs, and I am now amusing myself with Froude's Carlyle.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Froude : life of Thomas Carlyle
1 December 1884, from Canford: 'While Enid [daughter] was here she spent a good deal of time making a miniature drawing in water colours of one of the fine pictures in the drawing room, and while she drew I read to her one of those amusing gossiping letters of Horace Walpole on my subjects [i.e. ceramics connoisseurship], about which I have all the Hogarth and all the Wedgwood books here [...] Besides that I have done very little except read some part of Cooke's Memoirs, and I am now amusing myself with Froude's Carlyle.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [of Maria Edgeworth]'
20 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Barbauld and Mrs Opie. I read a good deal of one kind and another, but forget it all as soon as read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Unknown
Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [of Anna Laetitia Barbauld]'
20 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Barbauld and Mrs Opie. I read a good deal of one kind and another, but forget it all as soon as read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Unknown
Miss Thackeray : 'sketch [of Amelia Opie]'
20 December 1884: 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life [...] Today I have been amusing myself with Miss Thackeray's sketches of Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Barbauld and Mrs Opie. I read a good deal of one kind and another, but forget it all as soon as read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Unknown
Thomas Babington Macauley : Essay on Atterbury
21 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager to be at work. A passage in Macaulay's Essay on Atterbury struck me very much the other day. He says: "Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless." I am sure this is the case with me, I must be always doing something. My reading, this past summer, has chiefly been Macaulay's History. It has been of immense interest to me, but I forget it almost as fast as I read it. My chief time for reading is in the night if I happen to wake, or in the early morning.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Thomas Babington Macauley : History
21 August 1886: 'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me to decide on any change, and yet I am always eager to be at work. A passage in Macaulay's Essay on Atterbury struck me very much the other day. He says: "Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless." I am sure this is the case with me, I must be always doing something. My reading, this past summer, has chiefly been Macaulay's History. It has been of immense interest to me, but I forget it almost as fast as I read it. My chief time for reading is in the night if I happen to wake, or in the early morning.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
: Divine service
6 December 1886: 'I have just come in from Regent's Park, where, notwithstanding a bitter wind, I went and read my [Divine] service. Sunday is always such a sad day with me. I cannot bear to go to church with anyone, and when I am alone I find myself brooding over the past, and the happy days when we went together, and he always held my hand in his dear hand during the lessons and the sermon.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
Charlotte Bertie Guest : journals of c.1833
3 April 1887: 'Today I have been tempted to open old journals of 54 years ago. Many of the circumstances to which allusion is made in them, are now forgotten, and all is painful.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Manuscript: Unknown
Charlotte Bertie Guest : journals
4 April 1887: 'Woke early and resumed the reading [from 3 April] of the old journal. What strikes me most is that I speak several times of being tired, and once of having a headache. I did not think I ever had one, and have no recollection of such a thing.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Manuscript: Unknown
Henry Layard : 'book on his early travels'
1 October 1887: 'Henry [Layard, son-in-law] has given me the revises of a new book on his early travels, which Murray is about to bring out, and I have been reading them over to make any corrections that may strike me. I have gone through them carefully and found many errors. I don't think Spottiswoode prints as he ought to do.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: In proofs from John Murray
Horatio Brown : Venetian Studies
[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889] 'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian history and art, was one of the English colony who came to Ca' Capello, and Lady Charlotte read his Venetian Studies which he had just published.'
