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, pp. 232-45.
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Primary recipients of her correspondence included Thomas Carlyle, her mother Grace Welsh
, her maternal...
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Charlotte Brontë
She stayed at the house of handsome, unmarried George Smith
, of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, and his mother. The night before she left, they hosted a dinner for critics, including John Forster
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