Jane Welsh Carlyle
Scottish writer (1801-1866) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jane Baillie Carlyle (née Welsh; 14 July 1801 – 21 April 1866) was a Scottish writer and the wife of Thomas Carlyle.
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Born | (1801-07-14)14 July 1801 Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland |
Died | 21 April 1866(1866-04-21) (aged 64) London, England |
Resting place | St Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington, Scotland |
Occupation | Writer |
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Children | 0 |
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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,"[1] and Elizabeth Hardwick described her work as a "private writing career."[2]