The Carlyle EncyclopediaMark Cumming Written by more than fifty international researchers in Victorian studies, The Carlyle Encyclopedia is the new standard, single-volume reference work on Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. It offers concise but detailed accounts of central issues related to the Carlyles' lives and writings, and provides bibliographic citations that direct the reader's attention to a wide range of additional sources. It presents the lives and literary achievements of two remarkable individuals in the context of the rich and challenging Victorian age. The Carlyle Encyclopedia will interest a variety of readers who concern themselves with literature, social history, the history of ideas, Victorian culture, and Scottish studies. Mark Cumming teaches nineteenth-century literature at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. |
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... Milnes said that Ashburton had " an unquenchable thirst for information , " and in the early 1850s he acted in support of the education movement for teaching " common things . " His affection for Lady Harriet , as Milnes says , combined ...
... Milnes said that Ashburton had " an unquenchable thirst for information , " and in the early 1850s he acted in support of the education movement for teaching " common things . " His affection for Lady Harriet , as Milnes says , combined ...
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... Milnes , George Stovin Venables , and William Makepeace Thackeray . For fifteen years she and her husband entertained the Carlyles at their various family homes : Bath House , in Piccadilly , London ; Addiscombe , in Surrey , near ...
... Milnes , George Stovin Venables , and William Makepeace Thackeray . For fifteen years she and her husband entertained the Carlyles at their various family homes : Bath House , in Piccadilly , London ; Addiscombe , in Surrey , near ...
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... ( Milnes , 241 ) . After the " great and irreparable sorrow " of Lady Harriet's death in May 1857 ( Life in London , 2 : 158 ) , the Carlyles maintained an independent friendship with her mother , Lady Sandwich , remembered by Thomas as ...
... ( Milnes , 241 ) . After the " great and irreparable sorrow " of Lady Harriet's death in May 1857 ( Life in London , 2 : 158 ) , the Carlyles maintained an independent friendship with her mother , Lady Sandwich , remembered by Thomas as ...
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