| The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: January 1854-June 1855: Volume 29 Volume 29 Edition Contributor(s): Campbell, Ian (Editor), Fielding, Kenneth J. (Editor), McIntosh, Sheila (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822365014 ISBN-13: 9780822365013 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offers a window into the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, attracted to them a circle of foreign exiles, radicals, feminists, revolutionaries, and writers from across Europe and the United States. The Carlyles numbered among their correspondents such influential figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Gaskell, Erasmus Darwin, John Forster, John Stuart Mill, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Notable items in this latest volume include Dickens's dedication of Hard Times to Thomas and Thomas's support of George Henry Lewes during the scandal over Lewes's affair with George Eliot. Themes begun in earlier letters are also resumed, including Thomas's flirtatious exchanges with Lady Ashburton, the recent death of his mother, the improvement of his soundproof room, and his struggle to pursue his research on Frederick the Great. Since 1970 twenty-eight volumes of the letters have been published by Duke University Press, and the collection is regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welch Carlyle |
| Physical Information: 1.34" H x 6.4" W x 9.36" (1.82 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: Don't miss a single volume. Subscribe today Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here. Volume 29 resumes themes begun in earlier letters: Thomas's flirtatious exchanges with Lady Ashburton, the recent death of his mother, the improvement of his soundproof room, and his struggle to pursue his research for Frederick the Great. Other notable items include Dickens's dedication of Hard Times to Thomas and Thomas's support of G. H. Lewes during the scandal over Lewes's affair with George Eliot. The highlight of the volume is a passionate and humorous letter by Jane, subtitled "Budget of a Femme Incomprise," in which she defends the rising cost of running their house. |
