At this time Jane's closest friend and constant correspondent was Eliza Stodart
.
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
The letters range in length, content, and style, but the vast majority exhibit Jane's keen sense of observation, her knack for capturing the essence of an interaction on paper, her conversational style, and her famous...
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
A collection of letters written by Jane Welsh to Bess Stodart (also known as Eliza)
were published as Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. “Preface”. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by David G. Ritchie, Swan Sonnenschein, 1889, p. v - xii.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
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
.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Thomas and Jane: Selected Letters from the Edinburgh University Library Collection. Editor Campbell, Ian, Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1980.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
From her youth to her death JWC
was a prolific letter-writer: more than three thousand of her letters survive.
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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Primary recipients of her correspondence included Thomas Carlyle, her mother Grace Welsh
, her maternal...