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Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Also known as Jane Baillie Welsh, Jane Baillie Carlyle, Jane (Baillie) Welsh Carlyle

Scottish writer (1801–1866)

Person · Open Library

Born
1795
Died
1881
Works
847

Top works

  • Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825)
  • Critical and miscellaneous essays
  • Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship and travels
  • Journal historique de la derniere campagne de l'armée du roi, en 1746
  • Past and present and Chartism

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Quotes

  • I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
  • If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!"
  • A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
  • In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.
  • Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!
  • Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Jane Welsh Carlyle, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Available in 7 languages

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