Mary Carlyle Aitken (1848–1879)
Mary Carlyle Carlyle (1879–1895)
1848–95
Niece of Thomas Carlyle: daughter of his sister Jane and her husband James Aitken, painter and glazier in Dumfries. Cared for her uncle from 1866 until his death in 1881. Married her cousin Alexander Carlyle at The Hill, Dumfries, in 1879. Disagreed with James Anthony Froude about the publication of Carlyle’s reminiscences in 1881. Helped Charles Eliot Norton to edit Carlyle’s letters.
Sources
Carlyle 1888, p. viii
Census returns of Scotland 1851 (The National Archives of Scotland: Dumfries 6/9)
Cumming ed. 2004, p. 77
ODNB s.v. Carlyle, Thomas
Scotland statutory marriages 821/94 Dumfries (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 26 May 2021)
Bibliography
Carlyle, Thomas. 1888. Letters of Thomas Carlyle: 1826–1836. 2 vols. Edited by C. E. Norton. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
Cumming, Mark, ed. 2004. The Carlyle encyclopedia. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
