Lady Charlotte Guest: An Enterprising Victorian

An English aristocrat, she translated a classic text from Welsh and then ran an ironworks

John Welford
Lessons from History
3 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Portrait by William Walker. Public domain image

The role of upper-class ladies in Victorian times was to make a good marriage and be the mother of another generation of aristocratic empire-builders. If they chose to indulge in genteel pursuits such as being a patroness of the arts…

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John Welford
Lessons from History

I am a retired librarian, living in a village in Leicestershire. I write fiction and poetry, plus articles on literature, history, and much more besides.