The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

FAIN: RQ-50376-09

Duke University (Durham, NC 27705-4677)
David R. Sorensen (Project Director: November 2008 to June 2013)

Preparation for print publication of volumes 37, 38, and 39 and online publication of volumes 36, 37, and 38 of the Collected Letters. (36 months)

Begun in 1970, the Duke-Edinburgh edition of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle is regarded by biographers, historians, critics, students, and general readers as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Thirty-six volumes have been published to date in book form by Duke University Press, and the first thirty-two volumes of the project were published in September 2007 as The Carlyle Letters Online (http://carlyleletters.org). This culmination of a nine-year effort to bring the Carlyles to the digital world has increased the global accessibility of the edition, with the online version registering an average of approximately 160,000 hits per week in thirty-five to forty different countries. With its impending aggregation into the NINES consortium, the CLO has established itself as a leader in the now essential venture of digital humanities.

Media Coverage

Letters (Review)
Author(s): Anne Magurran
Publication: Times Literary Supplement
Date: 5/14/2010
Abstract: Review of volume 37 of the Collected Letters
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/tlsReviewMay2010.pdf

Year's Best Books (Review)
Author(s): Paul Johnson
Publication: London Spectator
Date: 12/18/2010
Abstract: Johnson lists the volume 37 of the CL as one of the year's two best books.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/LondonSpectatorDec2010.pdf

Babe and Goodykin (Review)
Author(s): Jonathan Keates
Publication: Times Literary Supplement
Date: 8/10/2007
Abstract: Keates reviews volume 34 of the CL.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/TLSReviewAug2007.pdf

A Summer Expedition to Carlyle: Why All Journalists Should Read the Neglected Scottish Sage (Review)
Author(s): William Rees-Mogg
Publication: The (London) Times
Date: 8/20/2007
Abstract: Rees-Mogg on the delights and the importance of reading Carlyle
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/TimesAug2007.pdf

Review of CL Volume 30 and 31 (Review)
Author(s): Peter Jackson
Publication: Scottish Historical Review
Date: 11/10/2007
Abstract: Jackson reviews volumes 30 and 31 in The Scottish Historical Review 86.2 (2007): 353-56
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/ScotHistoricalReview2007.pdf

Announcement of CLO (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Vernon Horn
Publication: American Historical Association
Date: 9/25/2007
Abstract: AHA website announces the publication of the CLO.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/AmerHistSocNov2007.pdf

A Short Video Describing the Carlyle Letters Online (Media Coverage)
Publication: YouTube
Date: 6/13/2011
Abstract: A YouTube video that feature actors reading from the CL
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWq4GR4vR9w

Woman's Hour: Stately Homes (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Louise Adamson
Publication: BBC4
Date: 8/18/2011
Abstract: Jane Adamson visits the Chelsea Home of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle and interviews the curator of Carlyle's House Linda Skippings. The CLO is acknowledged as the source for reading from the letters describing the house.
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0138523

The Carlyle Letters Online (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Coordinating editor, Brent KInser
Publication: Duke University Press
Date: 9/14/2007
Abstract: A link to the home page of the CLO and to a link to the Carlyles' Twitter feed.

Review of The Carlyles At Home and Abroad (Review)
Author(s): Francis O'Gorman
Publication: Times Literary Supplement
Date: 1/21/2005
Abstract: O'Gorman reviews the collection of essays included in The Carlyles At Home and Abroad. Many of these rely upon the CL.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/TLSReviewJune2005.pdf

Carlyle Has Much to Tell Us as We Try to Understand Terrorist Motivations (Review)
Author(s): David R. Sorensen
Publication: The Financial Times
Date: 7/31/2005
Abstract: Sorensen comments upon the importance of Carlyle's analysis of terrorism.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/FTTCLETTER.pdf

Rare and Strange (Review)
Author(s): Rosemary Ashton
Publication: Times Literary Supplement
Date: 6/25/2004
Abstract: Ashton reviews Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters,edited by CL editors Kenneth J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/TLSJune2004.pdf

Betwixt Himself and Me (Review)
Author(s): Rosemary Ashton
Publication: Times Literary Supplement
Date: 6/20/2003
Abstract: Ashton reviews volume 30 of the CL.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/TLSJune2003.pdf

London's Gloomiest Couple (Review)
Author(s): Simon Heffer
Publication: Times Literary Supplement
Date: 5/24/2003
Abstract: Heffer reviews volumes 29 and 30 of the CL.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/Spectator24May2003.pdf

Dear Old Prophet (Review)
Author(s): Rosemary Ashton
Publication: Times Literary Supplement
Date: 1/14/2000
Abstract: Ashton reviews volume 27 of the CL.
URL: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74276948/TLSJan2000.pdf

Associated Products

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volume 39: December 1862-December 1863 (Book)
Title: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volume 39: December 1862-December 1863
Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Editor: Jonathan Wild
Editor: Ian Campbell
Editor: Aileen Christianson
Editor: David Sorensen
Editor: Brent Kinser
Editor: Jane Roberts
Editor: Liz Sutherland
Abstract: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle offer a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world’s most accomplished, perceptive, and unusual inhabitants. Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, attracted to them a circle of foreign exiles, radicals, feminists, revolutionaries, and major and minor writers from across Europe and the United States. The collection is regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/collected-letters-of-thomas-and-jane-welsh-carlyle-duke-edinburgh-edition/oclc/697600001?ht=edition&referer=di
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=45635
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: ISSN: 1532-09

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