I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Carlyle, Jane Welsh; Alan Simpson and Mary McQueen (editors); Introduction and Notes - 1977

Cambridge University Press, London, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The selection begins with the strange, prolonged courtship; portraits, conscious and unconscious, of herself and her husband... about running the Chelsea house at 5 Cheyne Row, protecting Carlyle from noise, neighbours and bedbugs; a Dickensian succession of mostly awful servants... her 'outings' - including a deeply poignant account of her return to her childhood home... as well as Jane's 'puddling health' and her recovery. This is a book to read right through with riveted enjoyment." [Pub. Info] "In 1973, G.B. Tennyson described her as: One of the rare Victorian wives who are of literary interest in their own right… to be remembered as one of the great letter writers... of the nineteenth century..." [Wikipedia] There is a protective mylar cover. FIRST EDITION.