Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk

Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk

Carlyle, Alexander

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861

Internet Archive

1861

George Eliot to John Blackwood, London, 15 February 1861. "We are reading Carlyle's Memoirs with much interest, but so far as we have gone, he certainly does seem to me something of a "Sadducee" -- a very handsome one, judging from his portrait. What a memory and what an experience for a novelist! But somehow, experience and finished faculty rarely go together. Dearly beloved Scott had the greatest combination of experience and faculty -- yet even he never made the most of his treasures, at least in his mode of presentation." GEL 3: 378

Carlyle, Alexander, Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57266

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