The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme Paperback Book

Description: The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme This book about Thomas and Jane Carlyles life together at 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row, Chelsea evokes everyday life from the day they moved in, in 1834, until Janes death in 1866. Each of the eleven chapters describes different aspects of the house, a mixture of biography and social history. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "The Carlyles at Home" is about Thomas and Jane Carlyles life together at 5 (now 24) Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and was written in the 1960s by a former actress who was then living there as co-custodian of the house with her husband. Thea Holmes book evokes the everyday life of the Carlyles from the day they moved in, in 1834, until Janes death in 1866. The Carlyles dour joy in the daily battle of study and kitchen is the making of Thea Holmes detailed account of housekeeping at Cheyne Row, wrote VS Pritchett in the "New Statesman" in 1965.No stove, cooking by candlelight, a state of civil war about doors and windows: he cant bear them closed, she freezes in the draughts. They are the best letter-writers, born chatterers and reporters who can knock off a scene or a person in a talking phrase. Jane Carlyle gives us Mrs Leigh Hunt continually in and out, borrowing spoons, porridge, even a brass fender, and usually drunkish. Jane screams at Browning for putting a kettle down on her best carpet; tells how an Irish builder falls through the ceiling of her bedroom during alterations; battles with the 32 maids she had in 34 years at GBP 8 a year.She has that innate Scottish gift for the pawky recital of domestic clatter.Jane may have subsumed her life into that of the Sage of Chelsea but, such is the interest nowadays in domestic history and women writers, most twenty-first century readers will be more interested in her life than in her husbands. Each of the eleven chapters, with titles such as The Soundproof Study, Money and The Garden describes a different aspect of life in Cheyne Row, whether it is a a neighbours loud piano-playing or a maid giving birth in the china closet while Mr Carlyle was taking tea in the dining-room with Miss Jewsbury talking to him!!! Just a thin small door between! The open door to this closet is clearly visible in the Robert Tait painting of the two ground-floor rooms beautifully reproduced as the front and back endpapers of the Persephone edition. And because 24 Cheyne Row was bought by The Carlyles House Memorial Trust, and is today run by the National Trust visitors can see the room exactly as it was when it was painted 150 years ago. Details ISBN1903155223 Author Thea Holme Pages 216 Publisher Persephone Books Ltd Year 2002 ISBN-10 1903155223 ISBN-13 9781903155226 Format Paperback Publication Date 2002-03-22 Media Book UK Release Date 2002-03-22 Imprint Persephone Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 11ill. AU Release Date 2002-03-22 NZ Release Date 2002-03-22 Edition Description New edition DEWEY 828.808 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:628151;

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