Thomas Carlyle

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Standard Name: Carlyle, Thomas
Black-and-white, three-quarter-length photograph of Thomas Carlyle, taken by Robert Scott Tait on 31 July 1854. Carlyle sits on a carved wooden chair, looking down with a rather grim expression. He has thick straight hair, and has his arms crossed, with a large hat on his knee.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Sara Coleridge
SC met Thomas Carlyle at a party at St Mark's College in Chelsea (the earliest teacher training college).
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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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, 1987, pp. 91-94.
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and introduced Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill . Other friends included...
Friends, Associates John Stuart Mill
In London his social circle included Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle , Harriet Martineau , and John Roebuck .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
103, 105, 116
Friends, Associates Catherine Crowe
CC had already become a friend of Sydney Smith and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol , chemist Samuel Brown , artist David Scott
Friends, Associates John Ruskin
JR 's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning , Elizabeth Gaskell , Violet Hunt , Jean Ingelow , Flora Shaw , Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle
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...
Friends, Associates Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Her father's closest friends were from the literary elite: the ProctersAnne Procter and the CarlylesJane Welsh Carlyle . ATR was friends with Dickens 's daughters, particularly Kate Dickens .
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
30-1, 45
George Smith was from the 1840s a...
Friends, Associates Charles Dickens
As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley , William Harrison Ainsworth , and John Forster (who later became...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
In London, she met theCarlyles and John Gibson Lockhart 's daughter Charlotte . She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake . She called on Agnes Strickland and Maria Edgeworth . Lord Shaftesbury
Friends, Associates Constance Naden
CN met Dr Robert Lewins , of the Army Medical Department , at Southport on the River Mersey in Western Lancashire, in 1876. Described as a man of great culture, of wide travel and...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
ER also knew Charles Dickens , Thomas Carlyle , and the Brownings —she admired Elizabeth Barrett Browning (whom she had met for half an hour) as so interesting a woman.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 299
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
89-100
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
1: 225, 257
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
John Ruskin and his wife, Effie , paid a visit to the CarlylesThomas Carlyle in Cheyne Row.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
211-13
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ first met the Carlyles , just under a year after she had introduced herself by letter to Thomas .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Friends, Associates Lucie Duff Gordon
Friends of LDG 's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham , theCarlyles , James Mill , Macaulay , and Sydney Smith . Her own childhood friends included her...
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
Lady Harriet Baring , admirer of Thomas Carlyle and thorn in the flesh of Jane Welsh Carlyle , died.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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