Thomas Carlyle

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

Her father's closest friends were from the literary elite: the ProctersAnne Procter and the CarlylesJane Welsh Carlyle . ATR was friends with Dickens 's daughters, particularly Kate Dickens .George Smith was from the 1840s a...

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...

JR 's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning , Elizabeth Gaskell , Violet Hunt , Jean Ingelow , Flora Shaw , Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle

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...

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 .

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

MO called on Thomas and Jane (Welsh) Carlyle in London.

Her travels in England introduced her to Mary Howitt and Thomas Carlyle , and she visited her old acquaintance Harriet Martineau . In Paris she had significant meetings with George Sand and the Polish poet...

On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle

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

Jane Welsh married Thomas Carlyle at Templand near Penfillan, Dumfriesshire.

In later years Irving and Jane Welsh became strongly attracted to one another; however, Irving was engaged and the romance was not pursued. Instead, Irving introduced her to his best friend: Thomas Carlyle .

Sir Henry Taylor , UT 's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready . Taylor's...

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