Reminiscences (Carlyle)
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Reminiscences is a book by historian and social critic Thomas Carlyle, posthumously published in 1881, which contains two lengthy memoirs of the author's wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, and friend Edward Ir
Title page of the first English edition
Jane Welsh Carlyle, who was commemorated in her husband's Reminiscences, wrote her own memoirs but burned the manuscript before her death.
The statue of Carlyle on Chelsea Embankment, sculpted by Joseph Edgar Boehm The shadow cast on Carlyle's reputation by the publication of the Reminiscences almost stalled the campaign to raise this monument.
"Froude besmirching Carlyle", illustration from Punch's Almanac, 31 December 1881
Edward Irving
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Edward Irving was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Reminiscences (Carlyle)
…social critic Thomas Carlyle, posthumously published in 1881, which contains two lengthy memoirs of the author's wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, and friend Edward Irving, together with shorter essays on his father and some of the literary friends of his youth. The book's emphasis primarily rests on Carlyle's relationship…
Edward Irving
Edward Irving by Hamilton Wright MacCarthy, 1867
Edward Irving, in a sketch published in September 1823..
Caricature of Edward Irving's preaching by Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1824)