Thomas Carlyle

These first translations by AS had several consequences. They were snapped up by Henry Bohn for his Bohn's Standard Library edition of Goethe's works (which was designed to take advantage of the interest sparked by...

Jane Welsh wrote to her cousin Jeannie Welsh on her engagement to Thomas Carlyle : Oh, if I might write my own biography from beginning to end—without reservation or false colouring—it would be an invaluable...

In her efforts to promote Temperance and education for women, CB toured and lectured to various audiences. When asked by Thomas Carlyle whether she ever ceased to feel nervous before lecturing, she replied: Oh, no...

Mary Agnes Hamilton , in a study entitled Thomas Carlyle, set out to urge on a sceptical modern age the spirituality, originality, and energy, in a word the greatness, of her subject.

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Subjects of poems here include Dickens , Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Siegfried Sassoon , Anna Akhmatova , Bella Akhmadulina , Billie Holliday , and Raymond Chandler . In Betrayal, a reply to Shakespeare

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...

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...

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...

The spur was the unfairness which she perceived in Froude 's life of Thomas Carlyle .

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

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...