Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Standard Name: Carlyle, Jane Welsh
Birth Name: Jane Baillie Welsh
Married Name: Jane Baillie Carlyle
Used Form: Jane Welsh
JWC is well known for her prodigious letters, none of which were published during her lifetime.
Christianson, Aileen. “Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Private Writing Career”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, 1997, pp. 232-45.
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Her witty epistles, which Thomas Carlyle praised for pick[ing] up every diamond-spark, out of the common floor-dust,
qtd. in
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Charles Richard Sanders, Duke University Press, 1970.
1: x
are rooted in her domestic and social activities and as a collection provide a social history of nineteenth-century London.
Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge, 1990.
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Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Jane also wrote a personal journal, a few poems, short stories, and dialogues which have been posthumously published. With the rise of feminist and epistolary criticism, JWC 's work has been the subject of increased critical attention from the late twentieth century onwards.
Photograph of a painting of Jane Welsh Carlyle by an unknown artist, at Carlyle's House in London. She is seen from the waist up, seated and looking down, with her head on one hand while the other holds a book. She wears a red velvet dress with lace at the collar and sleeves and a drop pearl at the neckline, as well as pearl bracelets and small gold rings. Her dark hair smooth, with a middle parting, and folded over her ears. National Trust'

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil.
Wilde, Jane Francesca, Lady. Social Studies. Ward and Downey, 1893.
274
Poetry, she imagines, could become a great educational tool, especially for...
Friends, Associates Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
But though she lived remote from London, she corresponded with writers such as L. E. L. and Jane Welsh Carlyle .
Devey, Louisa. Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton. Second, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, 1887, http://U. of Toronto.
143
Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1 June 1990– 2025, pp. 210-36.
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Her women friends stood by her during her husband's various persecutions.
Violence Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
She had renewed hostilities in February in a letter to the prime minister. Her son Robert, supporting his father on the hustings in his by-election campaign, was thunderstruck to realise that a woman making herself...

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