Person’s Profile
Mrs (Mason) Reeves (fl.22 July 1845)
Description
schoolmistress
Biography
Probably Charlotte Mason, CMY’s former nurse, sister of the transported agitator Joseph Mason (1799-1863). She could be the Charlotte Reeves (1803/4-1871) who kept a lodging-house at Ventnor, IOW, but that person seems already to have been there in 1841. She could also be the ‘old nurse of mine who married a drum major’ mentioned in a letter to Ann Carter Smith (31 March 1864). Coleridge, Life, 80-1; John Keble’s Parishes, 96-7; Charlotte M. Yonge, An Old Woman’s Outlook in a Hampshire Village (London: Macmillan: 1892), 65-7; Joseph Mason: Assigned Convict 1831-1837ed. David Kent and Norma Townsend (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1996), 3.
