Record Number: 27784

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

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

Date:

Between 1 May 1886 and 21 Aug 1886

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:

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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:

Thomas Babington Macauley

Title:

History

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27784

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:

192

Additional Comments:

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Citation:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from Her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 192, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27784, accessed: 20 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Lady Charlotte was still grieving the loss of her husband Charles Schreiber, who had died on 29 March 1884.