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Literature

Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World:
A Story of Love, Work, Marriage, and Friendship


Tuesday, September 26
8:00 PM  /  Book reading and signing

Hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the all-time great letter writers, Jane Carlyle--known to many only for her turbulent marriage to Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle--has been much overlooked. Through dedicated research and unparalleled access to Jane Carlyle’s private correspondence, biographer Kathy Chamberlain has done much to remedy this.
   A charming and witty writer, Chamberlain, a professor at CUNY, will bring Jane out of her husband’s shadow for us. Caught between her own aspirations and Victorian society’s oppression of women, Jane Carlyle hoped to move beyond domestic life and become a respected published writer. As she and her husband moved in exclusive London literary circles, mingling with noted authors, poets, and European revolutionaries—Dickens, Thackeray and others--Carlyle regularly reported to her correspondents on her rich, rewarding life in her Chelsea home— until her husband’s infatuation with a wealthy aristocratic hostess threw her life into chaos.

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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00 PM
Literature