Evidence: | 16 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa:
'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we
amused ourselves with Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop [...] C.S. likes my reading,
and it has the blessed effect of often sending him to sleep, when he seems indisposed and
restless.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1884 and 16 Mar 1884 | ||||||||||
Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: At sea, on board steamer | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Charles Schreiber (reader's husband) |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charles Dickens |
Title: | The Old Curiosity Shop |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 27775 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 180 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from Her Journal 1853-1891 (London, 1952), p. 180, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27775, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
The Schreibers had been staying in South Africa for the benefit of Charles's health, which had been poor, and declining, for several months; he died on 29 March 1884. |
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