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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Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Thomas Carlyle (whose words EG had used as an epigraph to Mary Barton) wrote an enthusiastic letter to her, praising her novel, which he said both he and his wife Jane had read with...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
Interestingly, Carlyle seems to place HM in the context of sage discourse in his characterisation of her to Emerson in 1837: A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas...
Literary responses Sarah Austin
Around the time of these publications, Thomas Carlyle commented wryly on SA 's increasing literary reputation, lamenting that she was becoming a London distinguished female.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
72
She, meanwhile, was anxious that despite being the fashion...
Literary responses Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1843 (1863): 261
The Dictionary of Literary Biography places this among CMT 's charming and...
Literary responses Jane Porter
JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...
Literary responses George Eliot
On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever
qtd. in
Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971.
131
), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB 's ballads have proved of particular interest to feminist critics. Dorothy Mermin argues that in this apparently most innocent, retrogressive, and sentimental of female genres, she was exploring what was to become her central...
Material Conditions of Writing Willa Cather
At the beginning of her undergraduate career, in 1891, she published two successive essays in the Nebraska State Journal: first Concerning Thomas Carlyle, then Shakespeare and Hamlet. Still as an undergraduate, she...
Occupation Richard Hengist Horne
Educated at Sandhurst , RHH started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Edgar Allan Poe . He also adapted plays...
Occupation Ralph Waldo Emerson
RWE studied theology at Harvard but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle , Coleridge , and Wordsworth . Upon his return to America...
politics Geraldine Jewsbury
Although she often admired Thomas Carlyle 's political opinions, GJ was deeply ambivalent about his belief that a woman's responsibility in life was to find herself some sort of man her superior—& obey him loyally...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was a fervent anti-vivisectionist. She followed the issue of experiments on animals closely from early in her career. By 1874 she was petitioning the RSPCA to pursue legislation restricting vivisection: Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle
politics William Morris
WM was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley , Thomas Carlyle , and John Ruskin (a particularly influential discovery).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Publishing Georgiana Chatterton
She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman , William Holman Hunt (who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle , Alfred Lord Tennyson (who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and German historian Leopold Ranke .
Publishing Jane Welsh Carlyle
Believing that Janegave up too much of herself
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Preface and Introduction”. I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by Alan Simpson and Mary McQueen Simpson, Cambridge University Press, 1977, pp. ix - xii; 1.
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for her husband , Alan and Mary McQueen Simpson published I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Simpson, Alan and Mary McQueen Simpson, Cambridge University Press, 1977.
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