Thomas Carlyle

In January 1850 GJ published a controversial article entitled Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism in the radical Westminster Review. This details recent writing by critics of Christianity such as Thomas Carlyle and J. A. Froude

GJ translated the writings of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini , including his reviews of Carlyle ; her versions appeared in 1844 in the British and Foreign Review.

In To-day, the first of these articles, she describes what she sees as a pervasive feeling of discontent in English society and argues that there is no room in the old faiths for the...

She had begun writing the novel in 1842 in collaboration with Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet .

GJ 's relationship with the actress Charlotte Cushman may have influenced her decision to make the heroine of this work an actress. She wanted to dedicate this novel to Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet ...

It was respectfully dedicated to Thomas Carlyle .

Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...

ABJ attended (with Robert Browning ) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the...

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

Educated at Sandhurst , RHH started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Edgar Allan Poe . He also adapted plays...

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

Mary Agnes Hamilton , in a study entitled Thomas Carlyle, set out to urge on a sceptical modern age the spirituality, originality, and energy, in a word the greatness, of her subject.

Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans

In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. The names he mentions include actual...

Thomas Carlyle (whose words EG had used as an epigraph to Mary Barton) wrote an enthusiastic letter to her, praising her novel, which he said both he and his wife Jane had read with...