“My dear Charlotte”: Conversations on poetry, music, and dance in the Jerningham family correspondence

Penelope Cave and Katrina Faulds explore music-making in the correspondence of the Jerningham family. 

At the centre of the correspondence is Charlotte Jerningham, who became the wife of Sir Richard Bedingfeld of Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk. Besides maintaining an extensive communication with her mother, Lady Jerningham, Charlotte also received letters from a cousin in Vienna who wrote marches, an uncle who was a harp-playing poet, her daughter who became a nun in Belgium and her future sister-in-law, who was a highly talented pianist.