"She is a very kind cheery woman in her own house; but there is an atmosphere of moral dulness about her, as about all Socinian women."
— Elizabeth Gaskell

January 1, 1970

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Jane Welsh Carlyle to Thomas Carlyle (12 September 1851), quoted in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. II, ed. Alexander Carlyle (1903), p. 29