Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World

“Intelligent, witty, thoroughly engaging . . . the most fascinating biography I have read in years.” — The Minneapolis Star Tribune   She was one of the all-time great letter writers, according to Virginia Woolf, but as the wife of Victorian literary celebrity Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle has been much overlooked. In this “hugely satisfying” new biography ( The Spectator ), Kathy Chamberlain brings Jane out of her husband’s shadow, focusing on Carlyle as a remarkable wo