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Jane Welsh Carlyle

Scottish writer

Died when: 65 years 97 days (783 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle (14 July 1801 – 21 April 1866) was a Scottish writer and the wife of Thomas Carlyle.She did not publish any work in her lifetime, but she was widely seen as an extraordinary letter writer.

Virginia Woolf called her one of the "great letter writers," and Elizabeth Hardwick described her work as a "private writing career."


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