In 1821, three years after Lord Lindsey's death, CG
's mother re-married. Her children's stepfather was her cousin, a clergyman named Peter Pegus
. He had a violent temper, was often drunk, and developed a...
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Charlotte Guest
Lady Charlotte Bertie (later Guest)
began writing her first staccato one-line diary entries at the age of nine, in a blank book given her by her stepfather
.
Guest, Revel, and Angela V. John. Lady Charlotte: A Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
