The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh VOLUME 2 ONLY
Language: English
Published by John Lane Company, New York, 1909
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ramblin Rose Books, Bremerton, WA, U.S.A.Ramblin Rose Books
AbeBooks seller since November 9, 2009
Condition: Used - Good
£ 19.46
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Wih Numerous Illustrations. Copyright MCMIX, (1909) 448 Deckled Pages. Hard covered. No dust jacket. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Text is clean, tight and bright. Prev.owners name on f.e.p. Some light edgewear and bumped corners. Spine is sun-faded a bit. Oversized; cannot fit in a flat rate envelope, requires a box to ship. From Wikipedia. Private life Carlyle had a number of would-be romances before he married Jane Welsh, important as a literary figure in her own right. The most notable were with Margaret Gordon, a pupil of his friend Edward Irving. Even after he met Jane, he became enamoured of Kitty Kirkpatrick, the daughter of a British officer and an Indian princess. William Dalrymple, author of White Mughals, suggests that feelings were mutual, but social circumstances made the marriage impossible, as Carlyle was then poor. Both Margaret and Kitty have been suggested as the original of "Blumine", Teufelsdröch's beloved, in Sartor Resartus.[7][8] Marriage Carlyle married Jane Welsh in 1826, making the marriage one of the most famous, well documented, and unhappy of literary unions. Over 9000 letters between Carlyle and his wife have been published showing the couple had an affection for one another marred by frequent and angry quarrels.[5] It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four. -Samuel Butler Carlyle became increasingly alienated from his wife. Although she had been an invalid for some time, her death (1866) came unexpectedly and plunged him into despair, during which he wrote his highly self-critical "Reminiscences of Jane Welsh Carlyle", published posthumously.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh VOLUME 2 ONLY
- Author
- Edited by Alexander Carlyle
- Publisher
- John Lane Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1909
- Condition
- Good/Light Edgewear
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hard Cover; Cloth/Gilt Titles
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Literature & Poetry
Ramblin Rose Books
Bremerton, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 9, 2009
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