Aileen Christianson

Standard Name: Christianson, Aileen

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Jane Welsh Carlyle
As feminist criticism has worked to revise the standing of the letter along with other marginalised forms such as the diary, appreciation of the talent and achievements of JWC has grown. Aileen Christianson and Jean Wasko
Publishing Willa Muir
Around 1952, WM finished another never-published novel: The Usurpers. She submitted it under the pseudonym Alexander Croy to Macmillan , Chatto and Windus , and Hamish Hamilton , but all three rejected it. While...
Textual Features 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...
Textual Features Willa Muir
Though this is technically autobiography, she perhaps tells more about her husband than herself; Aileen Christianson , in her entry on WM in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, calls it more rightly a...

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Texts

Christianson, Aileen. “Constructing Reality: Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Epistolary Narratives”. Carlyle Studies Annual, Vol.
16
, 1996, pp. 15-24.
Lumsden, Alison et al., editors. “Jackie Kay’s Poetry and Prose: Constructing Identity”. Contemporary Scottish Women Writers, Edinburgh University Press, 2000, pp. 79-91.
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.
Christianson, Aileen. “Rewriting Herself: Jane Welsh Carlyle’s Letters”. Scotlands: The International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Culture, Vol.
2
, No. 1, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 47-52.