Thomas Carlyle

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Standard Name: Carlyle, Thomas
Black-and-white, three-quarter-length photograph of Thomas Carlyle, taken by Robert Scott Tait on 31 July 1854. Carlyle sits on a carved wooden chair, looking down with a rather grim expression. He has thick straight hair, and has his arms crossed, with a large hat on his knee.

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Cultural formation James Anthony Froude
He gradually lost faith in High Church tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle . JAF was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and...
Cultural formation Grace Aguilar
Her father's family was from Spain and her mother's family was from Portugal.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
136, 176
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, 1952, pp. 137-48.
138
GA was English by birth, and she was full of praise for her country as a land of tolerance...
Cultural formation Julia Wedgwood
JW was born into that section of the English professional class which functioned as an intellectual and cultural elite. She was connected through her family with other Victorians strongly committed to spiritual and moral inquiry...
Cultural formation Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
222
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
24
Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...
Dedications Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ 's relationship with the actress Charlotte Cushman may have influenced her decision to make the heroine of this work an actress. She wanted to dedicate this novel to Jane Carlyle and Elizabeth Paulet ...
Dedications Geraldine Jewsbury
It was respectfully
Jewsbury, Geraldine. Constance Herbert. Hurst and Blackett, 1855, 3 vols.
prelims
dedicated to Thomas Carlyle .
Education Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976.
57
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
There one of the incidents...
Education Emmeline Pankhurst
EP 's parents encouraged her intellectual development from an early age. Among the important first texts she read were Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress and John BunyanHoly War, and Carlyle 's French Revolution. Her mother...
Education Dora Greenwell
Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
199
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885.
73
She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans
Education Clara Codd
CC never went to school; instead, she and her sisters were taught by a series of governesses who she never loved.
Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited, 1951.
6
Her education was not particularly religious: she was not exposed to Bible...
Education Louisa May Alcott
She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft and also warmed...
Education Flora Shaw
On her father's promotion in 1861, a move to the Commandant's house enabled the voracious young reader to take advantage of unlimited access to the library of the Royal Military Academy , where she was...
Education Virginia Woolf
Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë , Lady Barlow (a commentator on Charles Darwin ), Dinah Mulock Craik , George Eliot ,...
Education L. M. Montgomery
LMM saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton and Carlyle . She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary...
Education Adrienne Rich
The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family...

Timeline

1826: The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was...

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1826

The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett to number around 30,000.
Behlmer, George K. “The Gypsy Problem in Victorian England”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
28
, No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1985, pp. 231-53.
232-3, 240, 243

December 1831: Thomas Carlyle's Characteristics was published...

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December 1831

Thomas Carlyle 's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.
Hardman, Malcolm. Six Victorian Thinkers. Manchester University Press, 1990.
24
Tillotson, Geoffrey. A View of Victorian Literature. Clarendon, 1978.
1n2

1833-34: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (meaning...

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1833-34

Thomas Carlyle 's Sartor Resartus (meaning The Tailor Re-tailored) was published serially and anonymously in Fraser's Magazine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

31 March 1836: The Westminster Review merged with a new...

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31 March 1836

The Westminster Review merged with a new quarterly to produce The London and Westminster Review, which embraced the philosophies of political and cultural radicals.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 537-8

May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...

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May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
129

By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...

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By 20 May 1837

Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
499 (1837): 353
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...

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By 20 May 1837

Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
499 (1837): 353
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

December 1839: Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism,...

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December 1839

Thomas Carlyle published his essay Chartism, bearing the date of 1840.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1840s: Advertisers packed London streets with large...

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1840s

Advertisers packed London streets with large models of various products; fantastic items such as seven-foot-tall top hats and sides of bacon were frequently seen as they were pulled through the roadways mounted on carts.
Fenstermaker, John J. “Thomas Carlyle, Popular Advertising, and the Commerical Spirit in Victorian England”. Studies in Popular Culture, Vol.
15
, No. 1, 1992, pp. 25-36.
25

April 1841: Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship...

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April 1841

Thomas Carlyle published On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Dyer, Isaac Watson. Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle’s Writings and Ana. Octagon Books, 1968.
10
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Chapman and Hall, 1897.
vii, 1

3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...

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3 May 1841

The London Library , established by Thomas Carlyle with Harriet Martineau , Dickens , Thackeray , and others, first opened its doors.
The London Library. http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk.
“OSA Staff”. Oxford Spires Academy.
“Members’ News”. The Author, No. 29, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2015, p. 31.

March 1843: The Society of British Authors was forme...

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March 1843

The Society of British Authors was formed.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “The Institutionalisation of the British Book Trade of the 1890s”. Development of English Book Trade: 1700-1899, edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris, Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1981.
101

By 13 May 1843: Thomas Carlyle published Past and Presen...

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By 13 May 1843

Thomas Carlyle published Past and Present.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
811 (1843): 453
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

December 1849: Thomas Carlyle published his racist Occasional...

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December 1849

Thomas Carlyle published his racist Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question in Fraser's.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 407

1850: Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton...

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1850

Charles Kingsley anonymously published Alton Locke, A Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Texts

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. James Fraser, 1840.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Ritchie, David G., Swan Sonnenschein, 1889.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Thomas Carlyle. Essays. James Fraser, 1841.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Thomas Carlyle. Essays: Second Series. J. Chapman, 1844.
Crichton-Browne, Sir James, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Thomas Carlyle et al., John Lane, 1903, p. 1: v - lxxxvii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Introduction”. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Charles Richard Sanders, Duke University Press, 1970.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883, 3 vols.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Sir James Crichton-Browne. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1903, 2 vols.
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Chapman and Hall, 1897.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, and Thomas Carlyle. “Preface”. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by David G. Ritchie, Swan Sonnenschein, 1889, p. v - xii.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. “Preface”. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, edited by Alexander Carlyle, John Lane, 1909, p. 1: v - xi.
Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Editor Froude, James Anthony, Longmans, Green, 1881.
Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus. Chapman and Hall, 1831.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editor Sanders, Charles Richard, Duke University Press, 1970, 28 vols.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Collected Poems of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Tarr, Rodger L. and Fleming McClelland, Penkevill, 1986.
Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution. Chapman and Hall, 1837, 3 vols.
Carlyle, Thomas, and Jane Welsh Carlyle. The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh. Editor Carlyle, Alexander, John Lane, 1909, 2 vols.
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.