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Carlyle, Marriage & Biography
On this day in 1826, Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh married. Acquaintances knew them both to be difficult personalities -- George Eliot's husband quipped that it was a marriage made in heaven, as it would make two people miserable instead of four -- but the portrait of a marriage that eventually emerged was still a shock to all, and especially to Carlyle. |
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Online Books Page
Find electronic texts of Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, and other works. |  | The Victorian Web
Find a biography and essays provide political, social, and religious context to Carlyle's life and works. Also features several biographies, and literary criticism and analysis of major themes, characterization, use of imagery and symbolism, and concordances with other authors (including Dante Alighieri, Mathew Arnold, Max Beerbohm, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, and Alfred Lord Tennyson).
"Carlyle's personal character and his philosophy are alike full of contradictions and hardly susceptible to summary exposition. The most high-minded devotee of the ideal, he could yet be in the last degree churlish and uncharitable to the work and personalities of others -- even to such a man as Charles Lamb. An apostle of courage and endurance, he was yet the most vociferous and ungracious of grumblers. His love for his wife was deep and abiding, yet her life with him was often a torment. While he abhorred philanthropy and liberal legislation along utilitarian lines, and came more and more to admire despotism, he could be scathing about the 'game-preserving aristocracy' and in his personal life was quick to relieve distress." | |
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