As a result of the growing appreciation of JWC
's writing, in 1924 Leonard Huxley
published Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863. Editor Huxley, Leonard, John Murray, 1924.
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The volume comprises letters to her maternal relatives in...
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh
wrote to her cousin Jeannie Welsh
on her engagement to Thomas Carlyle
: Oh, if I might write my own biography from beginning to end—without reservation or false colouring—it would be an invaluable...
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
From her youth to her death JWC
was a prolific letter-writer: more than three thousand of her letters survive.
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.
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Primary recipients of her correspondence included Thomas Carlyle, her mother Grace Welsh
, her maternal...