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Lady Charlotte Guest

1812 - 1895

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Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 – 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of the Mabinogion, the earliest prose literature of Britain. Guest established the Mabinogion as a source literary text of Europe, claiming this recognition among literati in the context of contemporary passions for the chivalric romance of King Arthur and the Gothic movement. The name Mabinogion used for the book was derived from a mediaeval copyist's error, already established in the 18th century by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh societies. As an accomplished linguist and the wife of a prominent Welsh ironmaster John Josiah Guest, she became a leading figure in the study of literature and the wider Welsh Renaissance of the 19th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Lady Charlotte Guest is the 5,865th most popular writer (up from 6,117th in 2024), the 4,868th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,053rd in 2019) and the 527th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 5,865 out of 7,302. Before her are Kazimierz Wierzyński, Ferenc Móra, Mark Haddon, John Keel, Karel Schoeman, and Gjorgji Abadžiev. After her are Paul-Eerik Rummo, Flora Nwapa, Daniel Goldhagen, James Hogg, Stanislava Staša Zajović, and Charlotte Mary Yonge.

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Among people born in 1812, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 74. Before her are Nicolae Crețulescu, Bertalan Szemere, Carl Edvard Rotwitt, Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, William Shanks, and Dragojla Jarnević. After her are George Grey, and John B. Weller. Among people deceased in 1895, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 87. Before her are Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Walter Q. Gresham, Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Peter Hardeman Burnett, Joseph Thomson, and Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello. After her are Calvert Vaux, Henry Seebohm, Richard Morris Hunt, Hugh McCulloch, Emily Faithfull, and James Gall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 4,869 out of 8,785. Before her are Michelle Dockery (1981), Josh Bowman (1988), Neil Dudgeon (1961), Mark Haddon (1962), Doogie White (1960), and David Owen (1938). After her are John Paul Young (1950), Arthur Whitten Brown (1886), Geoffrey Crossley (1921), James Hogg (1770), Paul Carrack (1951), and Robert Torrens (1780).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lady Charlotte Guest ranks 527. Before her are Joe Orton (1933), John Clare (1793), Arthur Symons (1865), Francis Chichester (1901), John Wain (1925), and Mark Haddon (1962). After her are James Hogg (1770), Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823), Charles Wilkins (1749), David Seidler (1937), Susanna Clarke (1959), and Frederick Rolfe (1860).

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