Title:
Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Overlook Duckworth, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781468314205
Abstract:
"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." -- Dust jacket.
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.
Genre:
Language:
English
