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The Carlyles in Scotland

1812 to 1834

Volumes 1–7

Volume 1: 1812 - 1821

Volume 2: 1822 - 1823

Volume 3: 1824 - 1825

Volume 4: 1826 - 1828

Volume 5: January 1829 - September 1831

Volume 6: October 1831 - September 1833

Volume 7: October 1833 - December 1834

Families and Formative Years / Ecclefechan / School Days / Edward Irving / Teaching and Tutoring / Edinburgh / Courtship / Marriage / Comely Bank / Craigenputtoch / Ralph Waldo Emerson / Move to London / National Palaver / Publication of Elements of Geometry (1822), Wilhelm Meister (1824), Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825), German Romance (1827), “Burns” (1828), “Signs of the Times” (1829), “On History” (1830), “Characteristics” (1831), and Sartor Resartus (1833–34)

The Carlyles in London

1835 to 1840

Volumes 8–12

Volume 8: January 1835 - June 1836

Volume 9: July 1836 - December 1837

Volume 10: 1838

Volume 11: 1839

Volume 12: 1840

Cheyne Row / Leigh Hunt / Death of Irving / John Stuart Mill / Burning of the French Revolution MS / John Sterling / Coronation of Victoria / Robert Browning / Alfred Tennyson / Erasmus Darwin / Harriet Martineau / John Forster / Lectures on European and German Literature, Revolutions, and Heroes / Founding of the London Library / Giuseppe Mazzini / Publication of French Revolution (1837), Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1838), and Chartism (1839)

Success and Security in London

1841 to 1850

Volumes 13–25

Volume 13: 1841

Volume 14: January 1842 - July 1842

Volume 15: August 1842 - December 1842

Volume 16: January 1843 - July 1843

Volume 17: August 1843 - March 1844

Volume 18: April 1844 - December 1844

Volume 19: January 1845 - September 1845

Volume 20: October 1845 - July 1846

Volume 21: August 1846 - June 1847

Volume 22: July 1847 - March 1848

Volume 23: April 1848 - March 1849

Volume 24: April 1849 - December 1849

Volume 25: 1850

Samuel Laurence's Portraits / Geraldine Jewsbury / Death of Jane Carlyle's Mother / Death of Sterling / William Makepeace Thackeray / Corn Laws / Charles Gavan Duffy / Journeys to Ireland and to Germany / International Copyright Law / John Ruskin / Lord and Lady Ashburton / Edward FitzGerald / Margaret Fuller / John Tyndall / Publication of Heroes and Hero-Worship (1841), Past and Present (1843), Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1845), and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850)

Into the "Valley of the Shadow of Frederick"

1851 to October 1859

Volume 29: January 1854 - June 1855

Volume 30: July 1855 - December 1855
with Jane Welsh Carlyle Miscellaneous Writings

Volume 31: January 1856 - September 1856

Volume 32: October 1856 - July 1857

Volume 33: August 1857 - June 1858

Volume 34: July 1858 - December 1858

Volume 35: January 1859 - October 1859

Thomas Woolner's Medallion / Crystal Palace / Journeys to Paris and to Germany / Sickness and Health / Sound-proofing the Garrett Study / Holidays in Scotland / Death of Thomas Carlyle's Mother / American Investments / Crimean War / Death of Lady Ashburton / Indian Mutiny / Robert Scott Tait's A Chelsea Interior / Louisa Lady Ashburton / Ford Madox Ford's Work / Publication of Life of Sterling (1851), Collected Works (1857–58), and Frederick, Volumes 1–2 (1858)