Thomas Carlyle

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...

She had begun writing the novel in 1842 in collaboration with Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet .

GJ 's relationship with the actress Charlotte Cushman may have influenced her decision to make the heroine of this work an actress. She wanted to dedicate this novel to Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet ...

It was respectfully dedicated to Thomas Carlyle .

GJ first met the Carlyles , just under a year after she had introduced herself by letter to Thomas .

GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying. Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...

GJ remained close friends with both Carlyles until Jane 's sudden death in 1866, at which time she was reportedly one of the two people asked to identify her friend's body at St George's Hospital...

After the publication of Zoe, a man known only in GJ 's letters as Q began corresponding with her. Other than that he was an acquaintance of the CarlyleJane Welsh Carlyle s, the man's real identity...

She dedicated Marian Withers to him in 1851. Lambert and Jewsbury shared a passage to the Continent when she and her brother left Manchester following her ill-fated relationship with Q . At first known...

GJ entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe , author John Ruskin , Samuel Carter

Although she often admired Thomas Carlyle 's political opinions, GJ was deeply ambivalent about his belief that a woman's responsibility in life was to find herself some sort of man her superior—& obey him loyally...

Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.

In January 1850 GJ published a controversial article entitled Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism in the radical Westminster Review. This details recent writing by critics of Christianity such as Thomas Carlyle and J. A. Froude

GJ translated the writings of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini , including his reviews of Carlyle ; her versions appeared in 1844 in the British and Foreign Review.

Later in his eventful life he entered into a common-law marriage with a woman named Marie Rose, with whom he had three children. He knew Thomas Carlyle and he apparently rented rooms to Karl Marx