Thomas Carlyle

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....

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

Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...

Charles Sanders and Kenneth Fielding published volume one of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: publication is ongoing.

Nearly twenty of JWC 's letters (primarily to Bess Stodart ) were published in Thomas and Jane: Selected Letters from the Edinburgh University Library Collection, which was edited by Ian Campbell .

The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle were published, edited by Rodger L. Tarr and Fleming McClelland.

Her first epigraph, from Thomas Carlyle 's essay Biography, counters the view of novelists and their work as foolish.

These first translations by AS had several consequences. They were snapped up by Henry Bohn for his Bohn's Standard Library edition of Goethe's works (which was designed to take advantage of the interest sparked by...

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...

In her efforts to promote Temperance and education for women, CB toured and lectured to various audiences. When asked by Thomas Carlyle whether she ever ceased to feel nervous before lecturing, she replied: Oh, no...

Mary Agnes Hamilton , in a study entitled Thomas Carlyle, set out to urge on a sceptical modern age the spirituality, originality, and energy, in a word the greatness, of her subject.

In 1850 JSM published his letter The Negro Question in Fraser's Magazine. Presented as a letter to the editor, it responds to Thomas Carlyle 's Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, which had...

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...

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...

She followed Shakespeare Criticism 1919-1935 with Shakespeare Criticism 1935-1960 in 1963. With the first of her volumes she had declined to follow directly on the earlier volume in the series (which ended with...