In January 1838 Benjamin Disraeli published a series of political letters in the Times under the heading of Old England and signed Couer de Lion, which imitated Carlyle's style.[2]
James Russell Lowell's The Biglow Papers of 1848 features a "notice" from the fictitious World-Harmonic-Æolian-Attachment in parody of Carlyle.[3]
Fraser's again parodied Carlyle in November 1849, this time by Charles Henry Waring.[3]
Carlyle received two parodic treatments in Punch shortly after the publication of the Latter-Day Pamphlets in 1850.[3]
In Henry James' The Bostonians (1886), Basil Ransom is described as "an immense admirer of the late Thomas Carlyle."[15]
Arthur Conan Doyle references Carlyle in his 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet, using a character's unfamiliarity with the name to illustrate his utter ignorance.[16]
William Bell Scott, in his Autobiographical Sketches (1892), refers to a piece published in "an obscure magazine" titled "More Letters of Oliver Cromwell" wherein "the style of Carlyle [is] imitated."[2]
Carlyle is mentioned and quoted in The Column of Dust (1909) by Evelyn Underhill.[18]
Bliss Carman, in "The Last Day at Stormfield" (1912), a poetic tribute to Twain, described Carlyle as a "dour philosopher . . . Yet sound at the core."[19]
Two Passengers for Chelsea (1928), a one-act play by American playwright Oscar W. Firkins, first appeared in Cornhill Magazine.[22]
Hugh Kingsmill published "Some Modern Light-Bringers, As They Might have been Extinguished by Thomas Carlyle" in The Bookman in 1932.[2]
In Vladimir Nabokov's Glory (1932), Martin Edelweiss considers the contrasting approaches of Carlyle and Horace in their non-utilitarian stances.[23]
In the Dorothy L. Sayers novel Gaudy Night (1935), Miss Lydgate criticises her former pupil Harriet's popular biography of Carlyle for having "reproduced all the old gossip without troubling to verify anything."[24]
The Fire-Lighters: A Dialogue on a Burning Topic (1938), a play by Laurence Housman, younger brother of Shropshire poet A. E. Housman.[22]
Elsie Prentys Thornton-Cook, a New Zealand-born writer, wrote Speaking Dust (1938), a novel that is "a reconstruction of the lives of Thomas Carlyle and his wife shown against the dramatic background of the time."[1]
Mrs. Carlyle: A Historical Play (1950), a three-act play by Glenn Hughes first performed at the University of Washington's Showboat Theatre on 7 October 1948 with Lillian Gish in the role of Jane.[22]
Carlyle and Jane by Henry Donald, first presented at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1974; the text mostly conforms to "what the two principal correspondents, their relations and friends, actually wrote."[22]
Neighboring Lives (1980), by Thomas M. Disch and Charles Naylor, is a fictional study of the Carlyles and their Chelsea neighbours from their arrival at No. 5, Cheyne Row in 1834 until the death of Jane in 1866.[1]
↑ Merritt, James D. "The Novelist St. Barbe in Disraeli's Endymion: Revenge on Whom?" Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 23, no. 1, 1968, pp. 85–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/2932319. Accessed 19 Apr. 2022.
↑ Schuyler, Montgomery (1883-06-01). "Carlyle and Emerson". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
↑ Tarr, Rodger L., and Carol Anita Clayton. "'Carlyle in America': An Unpublished Short Story by Sarah Orne Jewett." American Literature, vol. 54, no. 1, 1982, pp. 101–15, https://doi.org/10.2307/2925724. Accessed 20 Apr. 2022.
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