Thomas Carlyle

The spur was the unfairness which she perceived in Froude 's life of Thomas Carlyle .

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

JWC and her husband Thomas spent the winter in Edinburgh.

Jane Welsh visited Thomas Carlyle 's family at Hoddom in Dumfriesshire.

Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.

After months of steadily deepening poverty, ML wrote to Thomas Carlyle , whom she greatly admired, asking him to obtain her financial assistance from the Royal Literary Fund .