Highlight Talk – Letters of a Lifetime: Thomas and Jane Carlyle

Highlight Talk – Letters of a Lifetime: Thomas and Jane Carlyle

Wednesday 25 September 2024
2.30pm - 3.30pm
Free
Robertson Room, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Murdoch's Lone, Alloway KA7 4PQ

During this Highlight Talk, Ian Campbell, Emeritus Professor, Scottish and Victorian Literature, Edinburgh University considers the letters of brother and sister, Thomas and Jane Carlyle. Thomas, Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher wrote a Life of Robert Burns and his birthplace in Ecclefechan is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland. The author Virginia Woolf called Jane one of the “great letter writers”.

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