Jane Baillie Carlyle was a Scottish writer and the wife of Thomas Carlyle.
Jane Baillie Carlyle by Samuel Laurence detail
Jane Welsh Carlyle, ca. 1856, by Mrs. Paulet – National Trust, Carlyle's House; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
The grave of Jane Welsh Carlyle, St Mary's Church, Haddington
Plaque to Jane Welsh Carlyle, St Mary's, Haddington
James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergym
Jane Welsh Carlyle
…instead of four." Margaret Oliphant, a personal friend of the Carlyles, opined that the marriage's "canker" came chiefly from Jane. Carlyle's biographer James Anthony Froude posthumously published his opinion, based on "gossip and rumor" circulated by Geraldine Jewsbury, that the marriage remained unconsummated. This notion…
Painting by Sir George Reid
Caricature by Adriano Cecioni published in Vanity Fair in 1872
Colonial Secretary Lord Carnavon
Prime Minister of the Cape, Sir John Molteno