The Collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: in seven volumes
1985, Duke-Edinburgh Edition. Durham, N.C. ; [London?] : Duke University Press. Good set in original gilt-blocked cloth with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Item #258953
Physical description; seven volumes : ports. ; 24 cm. Contents; Volume 10: 1838. Vol. 11: 1839. Vol. 12: 1840. Vol. 15: August-December 1842 ; Index vols. 13-15. Vol. 16: January-July 1843. Vol. 17: August 1834-March 1844. Vol. 18: April-December 1844 ; Index. vols. 16-18/ Summary; The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world's most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, attracted to them a circle of foreign exiles, radicals, feminists, revolutionaries, and major and minor writers from across Europe and the United States. The collection is regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Subjects; Carlyle, Jane Welsh (1801-1866) — Correspondence. Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) — Correspondence. Authors, Scottish — 19th century — Correspondence. Authors' spouses — Great Britain — Correspondence. English literature. Literary studies: general. English. Biography & Autobiography / General. Literary Criticism / General. Literary Criticism / European / General. Genres; Biography. Illustrated.
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