biography
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Carlyle, Jane Baillie
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née Welsh
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1801–66)
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| biography:
| Diarist, born in Haddington, East Lothian, E Scotland, UK, the wife of Thomas Carlyle. She was tutored by the revivalist minister Edward Irving, and he introduced her in 1821 to his friend Carlyle, whom she married in 1826. Forthright and quick-witted, she declined to become a writer, despite Carlyle's promptings. She supported Carlyle loyally through his depressions and chronic ill health, and after her death he retired from public life, writing an anguished memoir of her in his Reminiscences (1881). He also edited her letters and diaries, which are full of vivid insights and quality writing, and show her to have been one of the most accomplished women of her time. |
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