Record Number: 27785

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

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

Date:

6 Dec 1886

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: Regent's Park

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:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Divine service

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

In prayer book

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27785

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:

194

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from Her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 194, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27785, 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. Source ed. explains: 'She had given up the habit of going to church in London on Sunday mornings on account of the memories it recalled to her, and, unless it was very cold, she took her prayer book to Regent's Park and read the service to herself there' (see p. 194).