Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
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Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Author: Kathy Chamberlain
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468314211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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“Intelligent, witty, thoroughly engaging . . . the most fascinating biography I have read in years.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune She was one of the all-time great letter writers, according to Virginia Woolf, but as the wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle has been much overlooked. In this “hugely satisfying” new biography (The Spectator), Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable woman and writer in her own right. Caught between her own literary aspirations and Victorian society’s oppression of women, Jane Welsh Carlyle hoped to move beyond domestic life and become a respected published writer. As she and her husband moved in exclusive London literary circles, mingling with noted authors, poets, and European revolutionaries, Carlyle created and reported to her correspondents on her rich, rewarding life in her Chelsea home—until her husband’s infatuation with a wealthy, imposing aristocratic society hostess threw her life into chaos. Through dedicated research and unparalleled access to Jane Welsh Carlyle’s private correspondence, Chamberlain presents an elegant portrait of an extraordinary woman. “Sparkles with the wit and intelligence of the subject herself . . . If you think, as I originally did, that you have no particular interest in the life of Jane Carlyle, read this—you will be captivated.” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lucy by the Sea “Compelling . . . illuminates the outwardly decorous but often inwardly tempestuous lives of Victorian women.” —The New Yorker “Chamberlain, Jane’s latest and incomparably best biographer . . . gives us, at last, a Jane Carlyle who seems thrillingly alive.” —Christian Science Monitor

Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521213045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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This fascinating collection of Jane Carlyle's letters are arranged in sections corresponding to the main themes in her life. This is a book to read right through with riveted enjoyment. It is one of the most fascinating correspondences in the English language.

Author: Isaac Watson Dyer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Raymond Clare Archibald
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Raymond Clare Archibald
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Bliss Perry
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Mark Cumming
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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"The Carlyle Encyclopedia focuses primarily on Thomas Carlyle. It reflects the range of his interests and resists stereotyped impression of who he was and what he believed. It covers Carlyle's entire life, without privileging any particular work or period, and locates Carlyle in his time and place, in the context of a rich and challenging age. The Carlyle Encyclopedia also gives a balanced assessment of Jane Welsh Carlyle, which avoids either belittling her or overestimating her achievement. It avoids the reductive and contradictory stereotypes of her which were offered by early biographers of Thomas Carlyle and offers instead a study of her varied friendships and her trenchant observations on contemporary life." "The Carlyle Encyclopedia will interest a variety of readers who concern themselves with literature, social history, the history of ideas, Victorian culture, and Scottish studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755148460
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Thomas Carlyle was a man of huge influence in the nineteenth century. A prolific writer and historian, he was also a fervent campaigner for social reform, attacking the laissez-faire philosophy that was so endemic in his times. Julian Symons reveals him to be an eccentric figure, a man of literary genius, but also plagued by personal tragedy.