Carlyle’s Mail Fraud
Rosalind Mitchison, 6 August 1981
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Vol. VIII 1835-1836, Vol. IX 1836-1837
edited by Charles Sanders and Kenneth Fielding.
Duke, 365 pp., £32.95, May 1981,0 8223 0433 3 Show More
edited by Charles Sanders and Kenneth Fielding.
Duke, 365 pp., £32.95, May 1981,
“... These volumes are issued as a pair, with a single index, and rightly, because they hold together for a coherent segment of Carlyle’s life. The dominant theme of the two is the writing of The French Revolution: in Volume VIII Carlyle is struggling with the first two volumes, in IX he produces the third, spends four months battling with the proofs and finally sees the whole book published and reviewed ... ”