Author: Jane Welsh CarlylePublisher:
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Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Author: Jane Welsh CarlylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Author: Jane Baillie WelshPublisher: McClelland and Stewart
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Jane Welsh Carlyle. Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863. Edited by Leonard Huxley ... With Portraits
Author: Jane Welsh CARLYLEJane Welsh Carlyle
Author: Jane Welsh CarlyleLetters to Her Family, 1839-1863
Author: Jane Welsh CarlyleThe Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Vol. 27: 1852
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822324102
Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Author: Jane B. CarlylePublisher:
ISBN: 9780781274838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Bonded Leather binding
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World
Author: Kathy ChamberlainPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468314211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
“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
Thomas And Jane Carlyle
Author: Rosemary AshtonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448137047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane. It was a strong, close, mutually admiring yet often mutually antagonistic partnership, fascinating to all who observed it. The Carlyles lived at the heart of English life in mid-Victorian London, but both were outsiders, a largely self-educated Scottish pair who took a sometimes caustic look at the society they so influenced - Carlyle through his copious writings, and both through their network of acquaintances and correspondents. Carlyle's fame was confirmed by his Sartor Resartus of 1843, The French Revolution, his lectures on heroes and hero-worship and by his radical account of contemporary industrial Britain in Past and Present, 1843. Both husband and wife were great letter-writers, Carlyle commenting on the matters of the day, dashing off pen portraits of those he met and Jane with her brilliant stories and her sharp, dry humour. Yet despite her brilliance, Jane suffered, especially from Carlyle's infatuation with the lion-hunting Lady Ashburton, and the tensions in their marriage grew. The letters they wrote, both to each other and to others, make theirs the most well-documented marriage of the nineteenth century and give us an unequalled portrait of a famously unhappy marriage. This moving and vivid biography describes their relationship with each other, from their first meeting in 1821 to Jane's death in 1866, and also their relationship with the world outside. Rosemary Ashton's inimitable blend of rigorous scholarship, warm sensitivity and lively wit makes this not only a portrait of a marriage but a picture of a whole age, elegant, erudite and entertaining.
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