Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals, Vol. 1 of 2: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques Throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, ... From the Year 1869-1885

Excerpt from Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals, Vol. 1 of 2: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques Throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany, From the Year 1869-1885The rage for collecting old china has, in the present day, assumed such proportions and so many books have been written on the subject that it may be of interest to the collect ing and reading public to hear something of the bearer of a name which is frequently mentioned in many of these works, when referring to the Collection of Pottery, Porcelain, and Battersea Enamels which is exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum under the name of The Schreiber Collec tion.Lady Charlotte Schreiber, my mother, was, in her way, a remarkable woman. She was the only daughter of the 9th Earl Of Lindsey, a General in the Guards, who, at the age of 65, had in the year 1809, married, en secondes noces, Miss Charlotte Layard, daughter of the Dean of Bristol. When my mother was born her father was 68, and he died in 1818 when she was six years old. Three years after his death his widow married her first cousin, the Rev. Peter Pegus, couse quently my mother was then barely nine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.