The Mabinogion - Guest, Lady Charlotte
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The Red Book of Hergest, from whichThe Mabinogionare taken, is a collection of tales and poems written during the fourteenth century. Some of the Mabinogion in it have been reconstructed in Norman and Crusading times, but they contain reminiscences of a more distant period, often but half understood by the later story-teller. Among these are "The Dream of Rhonabwy," "The Lady of the Fountain," and "Peredur the son of Evrawc"-the three which happen to come first in the Red Book. These are Christian, but with distant glimpses ofCeltic heathenism. The adventures are all grouped around Arthur and…mehr

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The Red Book of Hergest, from whichThe Mabinogionare taken, is a collection of tales and poems written during the fourteenth century. Some of the Mabinogion in it have been reconstructed in Norman and Crusading times, but they contain reminiscences of a more distant period, often but half understood by the later story-teller. Among these are "The Dream of Rhonabwy," "The Lady of the Fountain," and "Peredur the son of Evrawc"-the three which happen to come first in the Red Book. These are Christian, but with distant glimpses ofCeltic heathenism. The adventures are all grouped around Arthur and his knights; and a kind of connection is given to the three tales by the presence of Owen and his mysterious ravens. Others, especially the four Mabinogion properly so called and the Tale of Lludd and Llevelys, are far older; they are older than Christianity, and older than Arthur.
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Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (19 May 1812 - 15 January 1895), later known as Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English noblewoman who is best known for being the first person to write the Mabinogion in modern print form. This was Britain's first work of prose literature. Guest established the Mabinogion as an important European literary source. He said this was known among the literati during a time when people were really into the chivalric tale of King Arthur and the Gothic movement. The name "Guest" for the book came from a mistake made by a copyist in the Middle Ages. This was proven by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh groups in the 18th century. She was a great speaker and married to the famous Welsh ironmaster John Josiah Guest. Together, they made her a major figure in the study of literature and the Welsh Renaissance in general during the 1800s. It is known that she and her second husband, Charles Schreiber, collected china in the 1800s. The Victoria and Albert Museum has their collection. She also put together many large collections of fans, games, and playing cards, which she then gave to the British Museum. She was known as an international businesswoman, a leader in liberal education, a generous donor, and a guest for the wealthy.