Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Charlotte Guest
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Standard Name: Guest, Charlotte
Birth Name: Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie
Used Form: Lady Charlotte Bertie
Used Form: Lady Charlotte Guest
Married Name: Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Lady CG
is remembered as an amateur scholar: her editions (with translation and annotation) of Middle Welsh tales which she called the Mabinogion remained a standard text for almost a century. She was also a lifelong diarist whose surviving journals, when typed at the beginning of the twenty-first century, filled more than 10,000 pages.
Jepson, Jill. Women’s Concerns. Peter Lang, 2009.
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She was also, together with her first husband and after his death, a Victorian industrialist who published on the iron industry.
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became a member of the literary circle of Augusta Hall, later Lady Llanover
(who is known as a patron of Lady Charlotte Guest
and as editor of Mary Delany
's autobiography and correspondence).
Fraser, Maxwell. “Jane Williams (Ysgafell) 1806-1885”. Brycheiniog, Vol.
7
, 1961, pp. 95-114.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Augusta Hall
Occupation
Queen Victoria
At about five o'clock in the morning, Lord Conyngham
arrived at Kensington Palace, demanding to see the Queen; in a private interview, he informed the young and sleepy princess that she had acceded to...
Reception
Sarah Stickney Ellis
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.
Obey, Erica. The Wunderkammer of Lady Charlotte Guest. Lehigh University Press, 2007.
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It was after...
Timeline
1764: Evan Evans published Some Specimens of the...
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1764
Evan Evans
published Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards.
Shippey, Tom. “Bardism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 13, 9 July 2009, pp. 27-9.
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1838 - 1849: Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber) published...
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1838 - 1849
Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber)
published her edition and translation into English of the most famous Welsh epic: The Mabinogion: from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh manuscripts.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
620 (14 September 1839): 694
March 1848: Chartist uprisings took place in London,...
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March 1848
Chartist uprisings took place in London, Glasgow, and Manchester.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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17 June 1850: The South Wales Railway opened between Chepstow...
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17 June 1850
The South Wales Railway
opened between Chepstow and Swansea. Lady Charlotte Guest
, one of the travellers on it, reported wonderful speed by the first train on her journey, which covered the distance between...
Texts
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Earl of, John Murray, 1950.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1853-1891. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, Earl of, John Murray, 1952.
Williams, Robert, academic, and Charlotte Guest. “Introduction”. The Mabinogion, Everyman’s Library, J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton & Co, 1906, pp. 1-4.
Lee, Alan, and Charlotte Guest. “Introduction”. The Mabinogion, HarperCollins, 2000, p. vi - ix.
Guest, Charlotte, editor. South Kensington Museum: Schreiber Collection of English Porcelain etc. South Kensington Museum, 1885.
Guest, Charlotte. The Mabinogion. Everyman’s Library, J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton, 1906.