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
.
Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby.
89
Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
xi,187
Travel
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh
visited Thomas Carlyle
's family at Hoddom in Dumfriesshire.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
61, 63
Travel
Jane Welsh Carlyle
JWC
and her husband Thomas
spent the winter in Edinburgh.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
105-7
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Lucy Knox
In Carlyle, LK
eulogizes an old family friend, Thomas Carlyle
, and thanks the mourners who gathered at his dishonoured grave.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
The dishonour mentioned in the poem might be a reference to the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Constance Naden
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,...
This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW
' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing
's words) five-finger exercises for future...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Vernon Lee
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Margaret Oliphant
The spur was the unfairness which she perceived in Froude
's life of Thomas Carlyle
.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle
, Goethe
, Emerson
, and Shakespeare
. Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
C. E. Plumptre
CP's discussion of Pantheism begins with Hindu and Buddhist texts (The Vedas, Brahminism, The Vedanta Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita), then moves through several Greek schools. In the modern period she...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jane Welsh Carlyle
JWC
's highly autobiographical letters have been critiqued as having no vision beyond the domestic, no focus beyond the self,
Skabarnicki, Anne M. “Two Faces of Eve: The Literary Personae of Harriet Martineau and Jane Welsh Carlyle”. The Carlyle Annual, Vol.
11
, pp. 15-30.
29
but this persistent focus on the details of her private sphere has also been...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anna Brownell Jameson
The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin
and the philosophies of Carlyle
on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc
, and her...
Timeline
1826: The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was...
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1826
The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett
to number around 30,000.
December 1831: Thomas Carlyle's Characteristics was published...
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December 1831
Thomas Carlyle
's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.
1833-34: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (meaning...
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1833-34
Thomas Carlyle
's Sartor Resartus (meaning The Tailor Re-tailored) was published serially and anonymously in Fraser's Magazine.
31 March 1836: The Westminster Review merged with a new...
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31 March 1836
The Westminster Review merged with a new quarterly to produce The London and Westminster Review, which embraced the philosophies of political and cultural radicals.
May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...
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May 1837
Thomas Noon Talfourd
, MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...
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By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...
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By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
December 1839: Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism,...
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December 1839
Thomas Carlyle
published his essayChartism, bearing the date of 1840.
1840s: Advertisers packed London streets with large...
Building item
1840s
Advertisers packed London streets with large models of various products; fantastic items such as seven-foot-tall top hats and sides of bacon were frequently seen as they were pulled through the roadways mounted on carts.
April 1841: Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship...
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April 1841
Thomas Carlyle
published On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.
3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...
By 13 May 1843: Thomas Carlyle published Past and Presen...
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By 13 May 1843
Thomas Carlyle
published Past and Present.
December 1849: Thomas Carlyle published his racist Occasional...
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December 1849
Thomas Carlyle
published his racist Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question in Fraser's.
1850: Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton...
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1850
Charles Kingsley
anonymously published Alton Locke, A Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography.
Texts
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Ritchie, David G., Swan Sonnenschein, 1889.
Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Thomas Carlyle et al., John Lane, 1903, p. 1: v - lxxxvii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Charles Richard Sanders, Duke University Press, 1970.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Sir James Crichton-Browne. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1903.
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Chapman and Hall, 1897.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. “Preface”. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by David G. Ritchie, Swan Sonnenschein, 1889, p. v - xii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Preface”. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, edited by Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1909, p. 1: v - xi.
Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Editor Froude, James Anthony, Longmans, Green, 1881.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Sanders, Charles Richard, Duke University Press, 1970.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Tarr, Rodger L. and Fleming McClelland, Penkevill, 1986.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. Editor Carlyle, Alexander, John Lane, 1909.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas and Jane: Selected Letters from the Edinburgh University Library Collection. Editor Campbell, Ian, Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1980.