This talk is part of the Online Autumn Lecture Series 2025 called Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops. Follow this link to book all of the lectures.
Our autumn lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming. Among them are two contributors to the highly successful series Victorian Architects, published by the Victorian Society in collaboration with Liverpool University Press. As well as discussions of individual architects, the subjects of the lectures range from interiors of the Aesthetic Movement to one of the greatest of all Victorian collectors
Lady Charlotte Schreiber: Extraordinary Art Collector by Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
Also known as Lady Charlotte Guest, née Bertie, Lady Charlotte Schreiber (1812–95) was one of the most significant women in the history of collecting. A woman who subverted gendered norms and challenged Victorian conventions, Schreiber made major contributions to ceramic history and cultural education, played an influential role in transnational artistic networks and donated thousands of objects to the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum. Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth’s long awaited study of this great Victorian collector will be published by Lund Humphries in September.