Sir John Guest

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

Lady Charlotte Bertie , aged twenty-one, married John Guest (full name Josiah John), a wealthy widower more than twice her age, a Welsh ironmaster, who after the Reform Act of 1832 had been elected a...

Sir John Guest died after several years of declining health. CG filled pages of her journal with expressions of passionate grief, and months later she stole away by herself to kiss and weep over his...

After two and a half years as a widow and after much trial and inexpressible opposition, Lady CG married a man fourteen years younger than herself: Charles Schreiber , a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

By her marriage Lady Charlotte Guest entered not only a family but also a business: the Dowlais Iron Company , founded by her husband's grandfather, which under the management of John Guest grew to be...

On the death of Sir John Guest in November 1852, CG was left the sole active trustee to direct the iron works during a difficult period when the price of iron was dropping steeply on...

CG 's activities as a collector, hunting for notable pieces of china in competition with other collectors, affected her journals, interrupting their narrative with notes of clues followed and desirable items attained or missed. Her...

Lady Charlotte Guest , who was first married ten years before this book appeared, received a copy of it as a gift from her husband and read it at his behest. It was after...

She kept it faithfully for seventy years, writing in it every day, sometimes spending as much as an hour on it, and abandoned it in 1891 only because she was by then too blind for...