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Reviews: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volume 30: Periscope into the past

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20030726
Author:ROBERT NYE

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volume 30

Duke University Press, GBP 60

There is something hellishly fitting about Jane and Thomas Carlyle still being yoked together so many years after their deaths. If ever a couple deserved to be united in unholy matrimony for all eternity then it is this one. Their marriage seems to have been miserable from the start, but then each of them had such a gift for complaining that perhaps things were not ever quite as bad as they wanted them to seem. As Samuel Butler once observed: "It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle ...

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