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SCHREIBER, See also:LADY See also:CHARLOTTE See also:ELIZABETH (1812-1895) , better known as Lady Charlotte See also:Guest, Welsh See also:scholar and connoisseur of See also:china, daughter of See also:Albemarle Bertie, 9th See also:earl of See also:Lindsey, was See also:born at Uffington See also:House, See also:Lincolnshire, on the 19th of May 1812. She married in 1833 See also:Sir See also:Josiah See also:John Guest, manager and afterwards owner of the Dowlais See also:iron-See also:works near Merthyr Tydvil. Lady Charlotte Guest studied the Welsh See also:language and literature, and published (3 vols., 1838-1849) The See also:Mabinogion, from the Llyfr See also:Cock o Hergest, and other See also:ancient Welsh See also:Manuscripts, with an See also:English See also:translation and notes. A second edition without the Welsh See also:text appeared in 1877, and in 1881 The Boy's Mabinogion; being the earliest Welsh tales of See also:King See also:Arthur in the famous Red See also:Book of Hergest, edited with an introduction by S. See also:Lanier. Sir Josiah Guest died in 1852, and Lady Charlotte married in 1855 See also:Charles Schreiber, M.P. for See also:Cheltenham and See also:Poole. She made a valuable collection of English See also:porcelain and china, now in the See also:South See also:Kensington Museum, another of fans and See also:fan leaves, presented to the See also:British Museum, and a third of playing See also:cards, See also:part of which is in the British Museum. On all three subjects she See also:left elaborate See also:treatises. She died on the 15th of See also:January 1895 at Canford See also:Manor, See also:Dorset, at the house of her eldest son Ivor Guest, See also:Baron See also:Wimborne. See also:Editions of Lady Charlotte Guest's translation of the Mabinogion are in The See also:Temple See also:Classics (1902), The Welsh Library (1902), &c.

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