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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20020203
Author:ANDREW CRUMEY

Thomas and Jane Carlyle:Portrait of a marriage Rosemary Ashton

Chatto and Windus, GBP 25

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Works on paper

Michael Holroyd

Little, Brown, GBP 20

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HAPPY families, as Tolstoy said, are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Rosemary Ashton's meticulous double biography explores the unique unhappiness of one of the most famous marriages in Victorian Britain.

Thomas Carlyle first met Jane Welsh at her family home in Haddington in 1821. She was a pretty, intelligent 19-year-old; a spoilt only child brought up to "great prospects", still mourning the loss of her ...

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