The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: July - December 1855

by Ian Campbell (Editor), David R. Sorensen, Aileen Christianson

Volume 30 illuminates Jane's inner life with the help of two previously unpublished documents: her complete journals from the years 1845-1852 and 1855-1856 and an interview conducted by her friend Ellen Twiselton that chronicles a painful period in the Carlyle marriage. Also included here is Jane's story, "The Simple Story of My Own First Love," and discussions of her complicated relations with feminists, whom she admired yet distrusted. Meanwhile, Thomas is mired in his remarkable study of Frederick the Great, a figure he reveres as an exemplar of "veracity" in a shallow age - an image of Carlyle himself.

306 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2002

About the author

Ian Campbell was educated in Switzerland and Scotland. He is emeritus Professor of Scottish and Victorian Literature at the University of Edinburgh and has wide interests in Scottish fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

He is the author of biographical works on Thomas Carlyle as was associate editor of the Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Carlyle Letters. His Kailyard was published in 1981, and a re-issue of J.M. Barrie's A Window in Thrums in 2005.