A number of (now out of print) collections of the letters of Victorian writer Jane Carlyle have appeared since her death in 1866, many of which began with a dramatic account of her life and then fit the letters to fit their account, say current editors Fielding (emeritus, U. of Edinburgh, UK) and So Editor(s): Sorensen, David R. Series Editor(s): Newey, Professor Vincent; Shattock, Joanne. Series: The Nineteenth Century Series. Num Pages: 380 pages, Includes 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 747. . 2004. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0754601374
ISBN 13: 9780754601371
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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This new selection of the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle presents a complete view of a remarkable 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. Previous selections have often tamely followed the semi-mythical version of her life first given by Carlyle’s biographer, James Anthony Froude, showing her as the victimized angel in distress.� 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. Each letter is a tightly controlled performance, which justifies Thomas Carlyle’s belief that her letters equal and surpass whatever of best I know to exist in that kind.�

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