Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Baillie Carlyle
Born(1801-07-14)14 July 1801
Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
Died21 April 1866(1866-04-21) (aged 64)
London, England
Resting placeSt Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington, Scotland
OccupationWriter
Spouse
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(m. 1826⁠–⁠1866)​
Parents
  • John Welsh (father)
  • Grace Caplegill (mother)

Jane Baillie Carlyle (née Welsh; 14 July 1801 – 21 April 1866) was a Scottish writer and the wife of Thomas Carlyle.

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]

  1. ^ Woolf, Virginia (1986). The Essays of Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanavich. p. 184.
  2. ^ Hardwick, Elizabeth (1974). Seduction & Betrayal. New York: Random House. p. 174.