Jane Welsh Carlyle

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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.
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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.
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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'

Milestones

14 July 1801

Jane Welsh (later JWC ) was born at Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

By 1814

By the age of thirteen, Jane Welsh had written a novel, which does not survive and was never published.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge.
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Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
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21 April 1866

JWC died suddenly during an afternoon drive in her coach in Hyde Park.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 55. Gale Research.
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Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
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Biography

Birth

14 July 1801

Jane Welsh (later JWC ) was born at Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
5
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

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