JWC
greatly enjoyed the company of young author and clergyman John Sterling
, his mother, Hester
(whom Jane adopted as a second mother of her own), and Hester's husband Edward Sterling
, editor of The...
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...
Publishing
Sarah Austin
The work comprised translations SA
had done in the mid-1830s. When she showed them to her friend John Sterling
, who took an interest in her progress as a German translator, Sterling sent the translations...
Textual Features
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Nor was she entirely charmed by her husband's lady admirers,
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883, 3 vols.
1: 66
though they make perfect fodder for her caricatures. To her close friend John Sterling
, Jane writes: You cannot fancy what a way...
Textual Production
Jane Welsh Carlyle
From her youth to her death JWC
was a prolific letter-writer: more than three thousand of her letters survive.
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, 1997, pp. 232-45.
232
Primary recipients of her correspondence included Thomas Carlyle, her mother Grace Welsh
, her maternal...
Timeline
31 March 1836: The Westminster Review merged with a new...
Writing climate item
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.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.