The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volumes 1-4: 1812-1828 (Duke-Edinburgh Edition)
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1970. Hard Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2316713
ISBN: 0822302403
Fine hardcover copies in a near fine publisher slipcase.
The first four volumes of a many-volume set. The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle opens 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. Correspondents include: Lord Ashburton, Robert Browning, Charles Butler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Forster, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne and Alexander Gilchrist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Geraldine Jewsbury, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, William M. Thackeray, Ivan Turgenev.--Duke University Press
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