Thomas Carlyle

The success of AO 's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray s, Tennyson , and Swinburne . She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth .

CN met Dr Robert Lewins , of the Army Medical Department , at Southport on the River Mersey in Western Lancashire, in 1876. Described as a man of great culture, of wide travel and...

Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the...

William R. Hughes counted twenty-one shorter publications by CN from 1881 onwards, mostly in journals under the signatures of Constance Arden, C.N., or unusually Constance C.W. Naden. They begin with Hylo-Zoism v...

Hughes regarded the most important essay here as the first, Summary of Results, which selectively sketches the history of philosophy insofar as it bears on CN 's own interests. He also judged the second,...

WM was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley , Thomas Carlyle , and John Ruskin (a particularly influential discovery).

LMM saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton and Carlyle . She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary...

In London his social circle included Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle , Harriet Martineau , and John Roebuck .

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...

Interestingly, Carlyle seems to place HM in the context of sage discourse in his characterisation of her to Emerson in 1837: A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas...

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

In 1838, HM met the British diplomat David Urquhart , who was known for his championship of Turkey against Russia. Although she recorded her dislike for his social egotism and misogynistic opinions, his hatred and...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude , writer; Jane, Lady Franklin (widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own...

After months of steadily deepening poverty, ML wrote to Thomas Carlyle , whom she greatly admired, asking him to obtain her financial assistance from the Royal Literary Fund .