"Charlotte's best-known activity as a ceramics collector frames this new account, with her other collecting interests given due consideration. Her aristocratic but penurious childhood, her two marriages, her experience of London high society and roles as housebuilder, manager of ironworks, philanthropist and educator are touched on lightly here. Using unpublished material in the Victoria and Albert Museum's (V&A) National Art Library, Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, establishes the rigorous and, for the time, unusual scholarly approach that informed Charlotte's collecting."
"donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum © Victoria and Albert Museum, London The future Lady Charlotte Schreiber, as she is usually known, was born in 1812, the daughter of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, who died when she was six. Four years later her mother remarried-Charlotte's poor relationship with her stepfather was redeemed by his gift of the small diary that started her life-long practice of recording."
Lady Charlotte Schreiber is best known for assembling an influential ceramics collection while also collecting other art and antiques. Her aristocratic but penurious upbringing, two marriages, London high-society experience and roles as housebuilder, ironworks manager, philanthropist and educator shaped her activities. Unpublished material in the Victoria and Albert Museum's (V&A) National Art Library documents her rigorous, unusually scholarly approach to collecting. A chronological account of her ceramics traces development across seven chapters that reveal her methods and personality. Examples include a circa-1755 porcelain tureen donated to the V&A. Early diaries began when a stepfather gifted a small book that initiated lifelong recording.
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