Thomas Carlyle

JWC 's highly autobiographical letters have been critiqued as having no vision beyond the domestic, no focus beyond the self, but this persistent focus on the details of her private sphere has also been...

Lady Harriet Baring , admirer of Thomas Carlyle and thorn in the flesh of Jane Welsh Carlyle , died.

Thomas Carlyle was the first to prepare a collection of JWC 's letters for publication. Shortly after her death in 1866—full of sorrow at her loss and regret at his neglect of her—he began assembling...

Margaret Oliphant 's visits to the Carlyles in London led to her close friendship with Jane Welsh Carlyle .

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

Thomas Carlyle was installed as Rector of Edinburgh University .

In response to Froude 's critique of theCarlyles ' marriage in Reminiscences, Margaret Oliphant published a glowing account of her friendship with the couple in Macmillan's Magazine.

Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall

Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before...

During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti , and Charles Kingsley ....

There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...

EBB 's ballads have proved of particular interest to feminist critics. Dorothy Mermin argues that in this apparently most innocent, retrogressive, and sentimental of female genres, she was exploring what was to become her central...

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....

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...

MAB 's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder , to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo , taken from a blue-book or government report...