Thomas Carlyle

She took as implicit motto for all her own writings the words from Thomas Carlyle 's Biography (on the foolishness of both writer and subject) with which Elizabeth Gaskell prefaced Mary Barton.

When she met him, Kingsley was experiencing severe religious doubts. Fanny's influence in his religious development during his undergraduate years should not be underestimated. She encouraged him to read Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Thomas Carlyle

Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice , forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , and Edward FitzGerald during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge

In Carlyle, LK eulogizes an old family friend, Thomas Carlyle , and thanks the mourners who gathered at his dishonoured grave. The dishonour mentioned in the poem might be a reference to the...

Friends were still being added to the Lambs' circle late in their lives, including literary friends like John Clare and Thomas Hood . Charles corresponded with Mary Shelley ; ML corresponded with Mary Matilda Betham

This collection of essays, written at various times from about thirty years before its publication, constitutes a more thorough and effective study of psychological aesthetics than those undertaken by Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson on visual...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...