Thomas Carlyle

She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .

In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister. Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor . She moved and entertained...

FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle

In addition to wading into the controversies of Churchmen, FPC also took Thomas Carlyle to task here for narrow social sympathies and racism. Critic Janet L. Larson presents a detailed analysis of her text's indirect...

CC never went to school; instead, she and her sisters were taught by a series of governesses who she never loved. Her education was not particularly religious: she was not exposed to Bible...

SC met Thomas Carlyle at a party at St Mark's College in Chelsea (the earliest teacher training college).

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

According to Liz Stanley , the extent of minutiae, repetition, and corresponding lack of emotional or psychological recording or retrospective analysis in the diaries' accounts of HC 's daily work is a result of their...

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...

This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle (to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his...

In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville

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...

On her first return from abroad to set up house with Lewes, GE had to undertake damage control in managing her friendships. She was anxious about the probable reaction of old friends like the Brays...

On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...

RWE studied theology at Harvard but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle , Coleridge , and Wordsworth . Upon his return to America...