Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!
1836
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Current citation
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters, edited by David R. Sorensen and Kenneth J. Fielding. Routledge, 2004, ch. 3.
Original citation
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letter to Eliza Stodart. 29 Feb. 1836.
