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Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage

Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage

Chamberlain, Kathy, author.
Book 2017

Hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the all-time great letter writers, Jane Welsh Carlyle, wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, has been much overlooked. In this compelling new biography, Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband's shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable woman and writer in her own right.

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Aitken, Jean Carlyle, 1810-1888
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Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
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ISBN:
9781468314205
Edition:
First edition
Description:
398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
The needle and the pen
The servants: "a most important--a most fearful item in our female existence!"
Friends and conflicts
The drama of 1844
What should a woman be and do?
Shaken all to bits
"My I-ity"
Crisis in Nice
A fine experiment
Seaforth house
"What is to come next?"
"Threatening shipwreck"
Breaking out
"Such shifting scenes--such incongruities"
A green and pleasant idyll
Sister woman / brother husband
Changes
A dash at the wall
Epilogue: a last word
Control Number:
2409258
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