A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certai… - Jane Welsh Carlyle

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A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

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

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