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.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1886 and 21 Aug 1886 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Thomas Babington Macauley |
Title: | History |
Genre: | History |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 27784 | |
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: | 192 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
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/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27784, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Lady Charlotte was still grieving the loss of her husband Charles Schreiber, who had died on 29 March 1884. |
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