Born: 14 July 1801, United Kingdom
Died: 21 April 1866
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: Jane Baillie Welsh
Scottish writer Jane Welsh Carlyle did not publish any work in her lifetime, leading to her being best known as the wife of Thomas Carlyle. However, she was widely acknowledged as an extraordinary letter writer, with Virginia Woolf calling her one of the “great letter writers,” and Elizabeth Hardwick describing her work as a “private writing career.”