Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Standard Name: Carlyle, Jane Welsh
Birth Name: Jane Baillie Welsh
Married Name: Jane Baillie Carlyle
Used Form: Jane Welsh
JWC is well known for her prodigious letters, none of which were published during her lifetime.
Christianson, Aileen. “Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Private Writing Career”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 232-45.
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Her witty epistles, which Thomas Carlyle praised for pick[ing] up every diamond-spark, out of the common floor-dust,
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Charles Richard Sanders, Duke University Press.
1: x
are rooted in her domestic and social activities and as a collection provide a social history of nineteenth-century London.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
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Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
105
Jane also wrote a personal journal, a few poems, short stories, and dialogues which have been posthumously published. With the rise of feminist and epistolary criticism, JWC 's work has been the subject of increased critical attention from the late twentieth century onwards.
Photograph of a painting of Jane Welsh Carlyle by an unknown artist, at Carlyle's House in London. She is seen from the waist up, seated and looking down, with her head on one hand while the other holds a book. She wears a red velvet dress with lace at the collar and sleeves and a drop pearl at the neckline, as well as pearl bracelets and small gold rings. Her dark hair smooth, with a middle parting, and folded over her ears. National Trust'

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
Despite the rocky beginning to their friendship, GJ and Jane Carlyle , eleven years her senior, developed a passionate and life-long intimate relationship. In a letter of 1841 GJ declared, I think of you very...
Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
Jane Carlyle describes another occasion at Seaforth, this time in 1844, when GJ , upset over an earlier dispute, entered her friend's bedroom at night and acted in such a way that it was a...
Leisure and Society Geraldine Jewsbury
Apart from these occasional quarrels, GJ and Jane Carlyle very much enjoyed their visits to Seaforth—visits which included smoking tobacco.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
54-5
Cultural formation Geraldine Jewsbury
Despite the occasional friction between them, GJ felt that her friendship with Jane Carlyle was a step towards a new reality for women. Writing to Carlyle in 1849, she expressed her dream of a future...
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
After the publication of Zoe, a man known only in GJ 's letters as Q began corresponding with her. Other than that he was an acquaintance of the CarlyleJane Welsh Carlyle s, the man's real identity...
Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
She dedicated Marian Withers to him in 1851.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
83
Lambert and Jewsbury shared a passage to the Continent when she and her brother left Manchester following her ill-fated relationship with Q . At first known...
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
While in ParisGJ was once again introduced to Ralph Waldo Emerson , whom she had previously met after attending his November 1847 lecture in Manchester. GJ grew to like the man she had...
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
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
Family and Intimate relationships Geraldine Jewsbury
Her relationship with Mantell met with disapproval from Jane Carlyle , who may have been jealous.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
223
In 1859, Mantell is said to have refused to marry Jewsbury and have her join him in New...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
She had begun writing the novel in 1842 in collaboration with Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet .
There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe reports that GJ worked with both...
Literary responses Geraldine Jewsbury
While some contemporaries such as Hall disliked the book, others like Jane Carlyle (to some extent), Erasmus Darwin , and Mazzini found it promising.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
80
The scandal surrounding its content did work in the author's...
Friends, Associates Harriet Martineau
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...
Other Life Event Harriet Martineau
She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
2: 125
Later, she attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

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