TC-ER [ELRI], 28 Feb. MS: Yale. Pbd:Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, ed. C. E. Smith (1895) 1:116–17; Wilson, Carlyle 3:252. Elizabeth Rigby (1809–93; ODNB), author; traveled in Germany and Russia and wrote A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic (1841), many articles for the Quarterly Review from 1842, and many books on painting; m., 1849, Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865; ODNB), painter, pres. of the Royal Academy, 1850–65, knighted 1850, and director of the National Gallery, 1855.

1. A resident of Edinburgh, she was visiting at the home of John Murray (1808–92; ODNB), publisher, at Albemarle St. TC had met her in Edinburgh, and soon after her arrival in London she noted in her diary, 27 Feb.: “Mr. Carlyle called, bringing with him his wife—certainly a more refined half; but he is an honest, true man, a character such as he himself can alone describe. … He talked of Popery, Luther &c., quite in the ‘Hero Worship’ style; only we quarrelled about Luther, whom he defined as a ‘nice man,’ and I said he had nothing nice about him” (Journals and Correspondence 1:115–16).