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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Jane Wyatt in Lovers and Friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...three Oliver-Dabney prizes for Radcliffe went to Jane Johnson '52, Anna Kris '53, and Janice Farrar '54, carrying a stipend of $75 and two of $25 respectively. The prizes in order, were for an honors essay of high distinction, the most promising junior, and the sophomore showing most improvement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces '51-52 Prize Winners | 6/5/1952 | See Source »

...Jane left mother, married Writer Carlyle (on Oct. 17, 1826), and thereby set in motion a relationship that has since fascinated the literary world. Hardly a decade has passed without fresh information (mostly in the form of letters), with the result that the Carlyles have begun to look like a pair of corpses which are constantly being re-exhumed to see which one had the arsenic. The virtue of this new disinterment by Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson (who did a similar post-mortem on The Four Brontës) is that it is thorough; no one will have much excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neurotic Victorians | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

Ecstatic Dyspepsia. Why should the modern reader, who seldom reads the works of Thomas Carlyle, hear so much talk about his marriage? The answer lies in the character of Jane Carlyle. Unlike the wives of many geniuses, Jane was neither a gay deceiver nor a suet pudding; she was a formidable intellectual, born to shine in literary and philosophical discussion. Every great man in London, from Charles Dickens to Alfred Tennyson, sat around the teacups with her; a favored few listened sympathetically to her tales of woe and discontent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neurotic Victorians | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...neurotic human beings together? The Authors Hanson, themselves a husband & wife team, approach the racked double bed of the Carlyle marriage with the serenity of Harley Street specialists, noting every hypochondriacal toss, turn and outburst with cool professional attention. They point out the more admirable aspects of the case-Jane's struggle to put up with her husband's cantankerous restlessness, her bottomless faith in his genius; Thomas' "absolutely unseducible" loyalty to his wife, his habit of rising to grave occasions with awe-inspiring kindliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neurotic Victorians | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

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