| Title | A selection of her letters |
|---|---|
| Author | Jane Welsh Carlyle; ed. by Trudy Bliss |
| Publication | Arrow |
| Size | 350p |
| Language | ENG |
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| Topics |
Letters Biography--Women Biography--Literature--Britain Carlyle, Jane Welsh (Wife of Thomas C. 1801-1866) |
| Notes | wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle and has been cited as the reason for his fame and fortune. She was most notable as a letter-writer. In 1973, G.B. Tennyson described her as "One of the rare Victorian wives who are of literary interest in their own right...to be remembered as one of the great letter writers (in some respects her husband’s superior) of the nineteenth century is glory beyond the dreams of avarice." [wikipedia] |