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Record 24684

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
22 November 1854: 'After dusk we adjourned [...] to Ivor's rooms, where I crouched by the fire, feeling chilled and poorly, and betook myself to my needlework. Ivor read a fairy tale, the Golden Beetle, and Charles Schreiber slept in an armchair. In due time came dinner [...] Afterwards we commenced whist, but when the evening paper came in we laid aside the cards and listened with sad interest to the account of the battle and the long list of killed and wounded.'
Century: 1850-1899
Date: 22 Nov 1854
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Cambridge
specific address: Trinity College
   
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:Ivor Guest
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 29 Aug 1835
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: Undergraduate student, Trinity College, Cambridge
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Wales
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: The Golden Beetle
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 24684  
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: 43
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 43, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24684, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Lady Charlotte Guest took the name Schreiber on her second marriage, to Charles Schreiber, in 1855. At the time of this journal entry, Charles Schreiber was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who had previously been employed by Lady Charlotte as resident tutor to her son Ivor.

 

 

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