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Record Number: 24682


Reading Experience:

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'.

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

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:

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

biography of Hartley Coleridge

Genre:

Poetry, Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ


Source Information:

Record ID:

24682

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:

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/RED/record_details.php?id=24682, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Lady Charlotte Guest took the name Schreiber on her second marriage, to Charles Schreiber, in 1855.

   
   
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