Thomas Carlyle

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...

Thomas Carlyle decided that he and his wife should move to London.

Jane Welsh wrote to her cousin Jeannie Welsh on her engagement to Thomas Carlyle : Oh, if I might write my own biography from beginning to end—without reservation or false colouring—it would be an invaluable...

Jane and Thomas Carlyle moved to 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, where they lived for the rest of their lives.

Jane then evaluates her current beaus by Rousseau's standards. Thomas Carlyle , whom she has just recently met, is something liker to St Preux than George Craig is to Wolmar. He has his talents, his...

John Ruskin and his wife, Effie , paid a visit to the CarlylesThomas Carlyle in Cheyne Row.

JWC 's highly autobiographical letters have been critiqued as having no vision beyond the domestic, no focus beyond the self, but this persistent focus on the details of her private sphere has also been...

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

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 ....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...