Thomas Carlyle

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

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...

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...

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...

GC was already beginning her habit of sending out copies of her works to eminent literary men, who were usually polite enough to reply with the hoped-for tribute of praise. She sent a copy of...

In early 1859 GC published a translation of the works of John Paul Friedrich Richter , and two years after that she edited from family papers Memorials, Personal and Historical, of Admiral Lord Gambier...

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 .

At the beginning of her undergraduate career, in 1891, she published two successive essays in the Nebraska State Journal: first Concerning Thomas Carlyle, then Shakespeare and Hamlet. Still as an undergraduate, she...

Thomas Carlyle was the first to prepare a collection of JWC 's letters for publication. Shortly after her death in 1866—full of sorrow at her loss and regret at his neglect of her—he began assembling...

Lady Harriet Baring , admirer of Thomas Carlyle and thorn in the flesh of Jane Welsh Carlyle , died.

Bliss hoped that her edition would allow JWC to write her own story. Her chronologically-organised collection includes letters from 1821 through 1866 and incorporates lengthy explanations by Bliss and occasional annotations by Thomas Carlyle

Margaret Oliphant 's visits to the Carlyles in London led to her close friendship with Jane Welsh Carlyle .

Thomas Carlyle was installed as Rector of Edinburgh University .

In response to Froude 's critique of theCarlyles ' marriage in Reminiscences, Margaret Oliphant published a glowing account of her friendship with the couple in Macmillan's Magazine.