Record Number: 27779

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

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

Date:

Between 14 Nov 1884 and 30 Dec 1884

Country:

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Time

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Place:

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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:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1812

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

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Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

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Country of Experience:

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

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Additional Comments:

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Froude

Title:

life of Thomas Carlyle

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27779

Source:

Print

Author:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber

Editor:

Earl of Bessborough

Title:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from Her Journal 1853-1891

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1952

Vol:

n/a

Page:

185

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from Her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 185, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27779, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Canford, a property in the family of Lady Charlotte's first husband, was the family home of one of her sons at the time of this visit. Two further comments are made in the Journal on this text: 20 Dec 1884, from Inwood (family home of another son): 'I have been going on with the reading of Carlyle's life. Would it not have been better for his memory and his wife's if none of these Memoirs of them had been published?' (see p.185 in source). 30 December 1884: 'I have finished Froude's Carlyle. The latter part of it is much the most interesting, dating from the time that Froude became intimate with him. I sympathize with his views and opinions of Gladstone and the French' (see p.186 in source).