Thomas Carlyle

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...

In 1850 JSM published his letter The Negro Question in Fraser's Magazine. Presented as a letter to the editor, it responds to Thomas Carlyle 's Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, which had...

Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...

Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé....

Bliss hoped that her edition would allow JWC to write her own story. Her chronologically-organised collection includes letters from 1821 through 1866 and incorporates lengthy explanations by Bliss and occasional annotations by Thomas Carlyle

Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...

According to Liz Stanley , the extent of minutiae, repetition, and corresponding lack of emotional or psychological recording or retrospective analysis in the diaries' accounts of HC 's daily work is a result of their...

In To-day, the first of these articles, she describes what she sees as a pervasive feeling of discontent in English society and argues that there is no room in the old faiths for the...

The book contains various drafts of her unpublished essays and a few of her poems, as well as letters exchanged with John Taylor , John Stuart Mill , Jane Welsh and Thomas Carlyle , and Helen Taylor .

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...

Jane and Thomas Carlyle moved to the family farm at Craigenputtoch, in Dumfriesshire.

Thomas Carlyle travelled to London in an effort to have his Sartor Resartus published; Jane followed in late September.

Jane and Thomas Carlyle returned to Craigenputtoch after six months in London.

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

AP lived with her family at various addresses around London. Initially they lived with her mother's mother, Anne Benson Skepper , and mother's stepfather, Basil Montagu , in a lively establishment described by Thomas Carlyle