Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes


Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart!


Citations

Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Edited by James Anthony Froude, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883.

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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Born: January 14, 1801
  • Died: April 21, 1866
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Writer

Jane Welsh Carlyle 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."