The Selected Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle : A Victorian and a Contemporary

Jane Welsh Carlyle

ISBN 10: 1399557203 / ISBN 13: 9781399557207

Published by Edinburgh University Press Jan 2026, 2026

Neuware - This book is a modern edition of an Anglo-Scottish epistolary classic, drawn from the authoritative scholarly edition. The letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle are works of art in themselves but also shed light on the Victorian age and the experience of women within it. They are arranged chronologically alongside biographical summary, and include her correspondence concerning a large range of Victorian intellectuals and other identities, from Mazzini to Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Ruskin, and Tennyson to George Eliot. The letters are commonly regarded as among the liveliest in the language, alongside those of Byron, Keats, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, and are a key document in feminist history, and the history of female authorship. Seller Inventory # 9781399557207

Synopsis:

This book is a modern edition of an Anglo-Scottish epistolary classic, drawn from the authoritative scholarly edition. The letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle are works of art in themselves but also shed light on the Victorian age and the experience of women within it. They are arranged chronologically alongside biographical summary, and include her correspondence concerning a large range of Victorian intellectuals and other identities, from Mazzini to Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Ruskin, and Tennyson to George Eliot. The letters are commonly regarded as among the liveliest in the language, alongside those of Byron, Keats, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, and are a key document in feminist history, and the history of female authorship.

About the Author: Richard Lansdown is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of Literature and Truth: Imaginative Writing as a Medium for Ideas (Brill Rodopi, 2018), A New Scene of Thought: Studies in Romantic Realism (Brill Rodopi, 2016), The Cambridge Introduction to Byron (Cambridge University Press, 2012), The Autonomy of Literature (Macmillan, 2001), and Byron’s Historical Dramas (Oxford University Press, 1992), and the editor of 21st-Century Authors: John Ruskin (Oxford University Press, 2019), Byron’s Letters and Journals: A New Selection (Oxford University Press, 2015), and Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought (University of Hawai’i Press, 2006).

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Selected Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle :...
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Jan 2026
Publication Date: 2026
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu