Record Number: 24686
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
Timeevening
Place:city: Cambridge
specific address: Trinity College
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Listener:Lady Charlotte Guest, Ivor Guest, Monty Guest, Charles Schreiber
Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:report of Crimea battle [?Inkermann]
Genre:Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication Details22 November 1854
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:24686
Source: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:
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Citation:
Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Earl of Bessborough (ed.), Extracts from her Journal 1853-1891, (London, 1952), p. 43, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24686, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Not clear which of persons present (if any) was reader. Battle of Inkermann (in Crimea conflict) took place 5 November 1854. 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.