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Lady Charlotte Guest (Berite) (1812 - 1895), daughter of the 9th Earl of
Lindsey, married in 1833 Sir Josiah J. Guest, a wealthy ironmaster, after
whose death in 1852 she managed the works. She was an enthusiastic
student of Welsh literature, and aided by native scholars translated with
consummate skill the Mabinogion, the manuscript of which in Jesus
College, Oxford, is known as the Red Book of Hergest, and which is now a
recognised classic of mediaeval romance. She also prepared a 'Boys'
Mabinogion containing the earliest Welsh tales of Arthur. She was also
noted as a collector of china, fans, and playing cards, on which subjects
she wrote several volumes. She entered into a second marriage in 1855
with Dr. C. Schreiber, but in literature she is always referred to under
her first married name.
- This article is originally from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
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