Adulation or Eggs
Susan Eilenberg: At home with the Carlyles, 7 October 2004
Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a Marriage
by Rosemary Ashton.
Pimlico, 560 pp., £15, February 2003,0 7126 6634 6 Show More
by Rosemary Ashton.
Pimlico, 560 pp., £15, February 2003,
“... come to know Giuseppe Mazzini, Geraldine Jewsbury, John Forster, F.D. Maurice, Thackeray, Dickens, Tennyson, the Brownings, George Lewes (though Jane refused to have Mary Ann Evans in the house), Lady Harriet Baring and William Bingham Baring, Charles and Erasmus Darwin, Margaret Fuller, Ruskin, Ellen Twisleton, Margaret Oliphant, Froude: practically ... ”