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.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 14 Nov 1884 and 30 Dec 1884 | ||||||||||
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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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Froude |
Title: | life of Thomas Carlyle |
Genre: | Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 27779 | |
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: | 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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27779, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
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). |
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