Thomas Carlyle

SC met Thomas Carlyle at a party at St Mark's College in Chelsea (the earliest teacher training college).

CC never went to school; instead, she and her sisters were taught by a series of governesses who she never loved. Her education was not particularly religious: she was not exposed to Bible...

FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle

In addition to wading into the controversies of Churchmen, FPC also took Thomas Carlyle to task here for narrow social sympathies and racism. Critic Janet L. Larson presents a detailed analysis of her text's indirect...

In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister. Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor . She moved and entertained...

GC was already beginning her habit of sending out copies of her works to eminent literary men, who were usually polite enough to reply with the hoped-for tribute of praise. She sent a copy of...

In early 1859 GC published a translation of the works of John Paul Friedrich Richter , and two years after that she edited from family papers Memorials, Personal and Historical, of Admiral Lord Gambier...

She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .

At the beginning of her undergraduate career, in 1891, she published two successive essays in the Nebraska State Journal: first Concerning Thomas Carlyle, then Shakespeare and Hamlet. Still as an undergraduate, she...

JWC and her husband Thomas spent the winter in Edinburgh.

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...

Thomas Carlyle decided that he and his wife should move to London.

Jane Welsh wrote to her cousin Jeannie Welsh on her engagement to Thomas Carlyle : Oh, if I might write my own biography from beginning to end—without reservation or false colouring—it would be an invaluable...

Jane and Thomas Carlyle moved to 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, where they lived for the rest of their lives.

Jane then evaluates her current beaus by Rousseau's standards. Thomas Carlyle , whom she has just recently met, is something liker to St Preux than George Craig is to Wolmar. He has his talents, his...