Thomas Carlyle

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Standard Name: Carlyle, Thomas

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Grace Aguilar
Her father's family was from Spain and her mother's family was from Portugal.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
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Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
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, pp. 137-48.
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GA was English by birth, and she was full of praise for her country as a land of tolerance...
Education Louisa May Alcott
She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft and also warmed...
Friends, Associates Sarah Austin
The couple were also good friends with Thomas and Jane Carlyle . SA helped the Carlyles with their house-hunting in London,
Tarr, Rodger L. “’Let us burn our ships’: Carlyle, Sarah Austin, and House-Hunting in London”. Studies in Scottish Literature, edited by G. Ross Roy, University of South Carolina Press, pp. 91-94.
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and introduced Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill . Other friends included...
Literary responses Sarah Austin
Around the time of these publications, Thomas Carlyle commented wryly on SA 's increasing literary reputation, lamenting that she was becoming a London distinguished female.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press.
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She, meanwhile, was anxious that despite being the fashion...
Friends, Associates Clara Balfour
CB met and became a friend of Jane Welsh Carlyle .
The ODNB says they met through Jane Carlyle's gratitude to CB for writing an anti-socialist tract. The FC says they became friends while Balfour...
Textual Production Clara Balfour
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Anne Barker
MAB 's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder , to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo , taken from a blue-book or government report...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
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...
Textual Features Mathilde Blind
Blind celebrates Eliot's intellectual as well as her literary eminence. She gives her introductory chapter to issues of gender, referring back to Eliot's 1854 essay on this topic, Woman in France: Madame de Sablé....
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Barrett Browning
During their visits to London, the Brownings socialised with such prominent figures as John Ruskin , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti , and Charles Kingsley ....
Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB 's ballads have proved of particular interest to feminist critics. Dorothy Mermin argues that in this apparently most innocent, retrogressive, and sentimental of female genres, she was exploring what was to become her central...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before...
Leisure and Society Dorothy Bussy
Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall
Travel Jane Welsh Carlyle
JWC and her husband Thomas spent the winter in Edinburgh.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
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Timeline

1826: The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was...

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1826

The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett to number around 30,000.

December 1831: Thomas Carlyle's Characteristics was published...

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December 1831

Thomas Carlyle 's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.

1833-34: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (meaning...

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1833-34

Thomas Carlyle 's Sartor Resartus (meaning The Tailor Re-tailored) was published serially and anonymously in Fraser's Magazine.

31 March 1836: The Westminster Review merged with a new...

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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.

May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...

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May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.

By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...

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By 20 May 1837

Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.

By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...

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By 20 May 1837

Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.

December 1839: Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism,...

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December 1839

Thomas Carlyle published his essayChartism, bearing the date of 1840.

1840s: Advertisers packed London streets with large...

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1840s

Advertisers packed London streets with large models of various products; fantastic items such as seven-foot-tall top hats and sides of bacon were frequently seen as they were pulled through the roadways mounted on carts.

April 1841: Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship...

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April 1841

Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.

3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...

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3 May 1841

The London Library , established by Thomas Carlyle with Harriet Martineau , Dickens , Thackeray , and others, first opened its doors.

March 1843: The Society of British Authors was forme...

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March 1843

The Society of British Authors was formed.

By 13 May 1843: Thomas Carlyle published Past and Presen...

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By 13 May 1843

Thomas Carlyle published Past and Present.

December 1849: Thomas Carlyle published his racist Occasional...

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December 1849

Thomas Carlyle published his racist Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question in Fraser's.

1850: Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton...

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1850

Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton Locke, A Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography.

Texts

Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Ritchie, David G., Swan Sonnenschein, 1889.
Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Thomas Carlyle et al., John Lane, 1903, p. 1: v - lxxxvii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Charles Richard Sanders, Duke University Press, 1970.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Sir James Crichton-Browne. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1903.
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Chapman and Hall, 1897.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. “Preface”. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by David G. Ritchie, Swan Sonnenschein, 1889, p. v - xii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Preface”. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, edited by Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1909, p. 1: v - xi.
Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Editor Froude, James Anthony, Longmans, Green, 1881.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Sanders, Charles Richard, Duke University Press, 1970.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Tarr, Rodger L. and Fleming McClelland, Penkevill, 1986.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. Editor Carlyle, Alexander, John Lane, 1909.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas and Jane: Selected Letters from the Edinburgh University Library Collection. Editor Campbell, Ian, Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1980.