If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of t… - Jane Welsh Carlyle

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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!"

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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About Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle (January 14 1801 – April 21 1866) was a Scottish writer. 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". She was the wife of Thomas Carlyle .

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Birth Name: Baillie Jane Welsh

Alternative Names: Jane Baillie Welsh • Jane Baillie Carlyle • Jane (Baillie) Welsh Carlyle

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