This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW
' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing
's words) five-finger exercises for future...
Cultural formation
Julia Wedgwood
JW
was born into that section of the English professional class which functioned as an intellectual and cultural elite. She was connected through her family with other Victorians strongly committed to spiritual and moral inquiry...
Literary responses
Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1843 (1863): 261
The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT
's charming and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Una Troubridge
Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's...
Like many of Mill's friends, the Carlyle
s grew to dislike HT
and suspected that her influence was ruining Mill. Jane Carlyle
called Taylor a dangerous looking woman . . . engrossed with a dangerous...
Textual Features
Harriet Taylor
The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor
, John Stuart Mill
, Jane Welsh
and Thomas Carlyle
, and Helen Taylor
.
These first translations by AS
had several consequences. They were snapped up by Henry Bohn
for his Bohn's Standard Library edition of Goethe's works (which was designed to take advantage of the interest sparked by...
Friends, Associates
Herbert Spencer
He counted Thomas Carlyle
and John Stuart Mill
among his friends. George Eliot
would have liked to make their intellectual friendship an intimate one, but he broke it off.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
On her father's promotion in 1861, a move to the Commandant's house enabled the voracious young reader to take advantage of unlimited access to the library of the Royal Military Academy
, where she was...
Timeline
1826: The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was...
National or international item
1826
The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett
to number around 30,000.
December 1831: Thomas Carlyle's Characteristics was published...
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December 1831
Thomas Carlyle
's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.
1833-34: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (meaning...
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1833-34
Thomas Carlyle
's Sartor Resartus (meaning The Tailor Re-tailored) was published serially and anonymously in Fraser's Magazine.
31 March 1836: The Westminster Review merged with a new...
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31 March 1836
The Westminster Review merged with a new quarterly to produce The London and Westminster Review, which embraced the philosophies of political and cultural radicals.
May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...
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May 1837
Thomas Noon Talfourd
, MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...
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By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...
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By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
December 1839: Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism,...
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December 1839
Thomas Carlyle
published his essayChartism, bearing the date of 1840.
1840s: Advertisers packed London streets with large...
Building item
1840s
Advertisers packed London streets with large models of various products; fantastic items such as seven-foot-tall top hats and sides of bacon were frequently seen as they were pulled through the roadways mounted on carts.
April 1841: Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship...
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April 1841
Thomas Carlyle
published On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.
3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...
By 13 May 1843: Thomas Carlyle published Past and Presen...
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By 13 May 1843
Thomas Carlyle
published Past and Present.
December 1849: Thomas Carlyle published his racist Occasional...
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December 1849
Thomas Carlyle
published his racist Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question in Fraser's.
1850: Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton...
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1850
Charles Kingsley
anonymously published Alton Locke, A Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography.
Texts
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Ritchie, David G., Swan Sonnenschein, 1889.
Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Thomas Carlyle et al., John Lane, 1903, p. 1: v - lxxxvii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Charles Richard Sanders, Duke University Press, 1970.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Sir James Crichton-Browne. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1903.
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Chapman and Hall, 1897.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. “Preface”. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by David G. Ritchie, Swan Sonnenschein, 1889, p. v - xii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Preface”. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, edited by Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1909, p. 1: v - xi.
Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Editor Froude, James Anthony, Longmans, Green, 1881.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Sanders, Charles Richard, Duke University Press, 1970.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Tarr, Rodger L. and Fleming McClelland, Penkevill, 1986.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. Editor Carlyle, Alexander, John Lane, 1909.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas and Jane: Selected Letters from the Edinburgh University Library Collection. Editor Campbell, Ian, Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1980.