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Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has give...

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The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: July 1847-March 1848

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I fi...

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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and d...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle

Writer

Born: 1801-01-14

Died: 1866-04-21

Jane Welsh Carlyle (January 14 1801 – April 21 1866) was a Scottish writer. She did not publish any work in her lifetime, but she was widely seen as an extraordinary letter writer. Virginia Woolf called her one of the "great letter writers", and Elizabeth Hardwick described her work as a "private writing career". She was the wife of Thomas Carlyle .More