Jane Carlyle
Subtitle: newly selected letters
By: edited by Kenneth J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen.
Contributors: Fielding, K. J.; Sorensen, David R., 1953-
Series: The nineteenth century series; Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866 -- Correspondence.; Authors' spouses -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.; Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Correspondence.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Sources.
Genres: Correspondence.; Sources.
Description: "This new selection of the letters of Jane Carlyle presents a complete view of a Victorian woman, with a wide circle of friends, who enjoyed the company of distinguished thinkers, writers, politicians, feminists, eccentrics and radicals. This edition draws on many remarkable letters and papers not published before, in which she created a memorable epistolary voice - shrewd, vigorous, ironic, observant, humorous and passionate. This new selection gives a rounded picture of her complex character, showing her as a tormented yet forceful woman who was a strong personality in her own right. She now emerges as a self-conscious artist, adept at constructing images of herself that were designed to appeal to her particular correspondents. The account is written with close attention to Jane Carlyle's long-running jealousy of Lady Harriet Ashburton; and fresh letters include many to her mother and her vital response to her passionate lover or admirer Charlotte Cushman."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiii-xxxiv) and index.