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This fascinating collection of Jane Carlyle's letters are arranged in sections corresponding to the main themes in her life. This is a book to read right through with riveted enjoyment. It is one of the most fascinating correspondences in the English language.
"Intelligent, witty, thoroughly engaging . . . the most fascinating biography I have read in years." — The Minneapolis Star Tribune She was one of the all-time great letter writers, according to Virginia Woolf, but as the wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle has been much overlooked. In this "hugely satisfying" new biography ( The Spectator), Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband's shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable woman and writer in her own right. Caught between her own literary aspirations and Victorian society's oppression of women, Jane Welsh Carlyle hoped to move beyond domestic life and become a respected published writer. As s...
Humorous and revealing, Jane Carlyle's letters present a fascinating insight into her private sphere, and her often turbulent marriage.
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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