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SIR JAMES CRICHTON-BROWNE

Last revised: March ,2008

Virginia Woolf: a Psychiatric History; Thomas Carlyle's Life, Health and Personality; Jane Carlyle's Life and Health, Sir James Crichton-Browne; Dr John A Carlyle; Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels and life; and more. Look for what interests you on this page, then use the menu and links. 

Beneath a Rougher Sea

Virginia Woolf - A Psychiatric History

An extensive site. If you are browsing I would recommend looking at the summary before you decide to read or download the other files. The summary has links to the various chapters and their contents.

Thomas Carlyle - Health and Personality

This is another large site. It concentrates on Carlyle's health, personality and psychopathology, but contains a biography, a detailed chronology relating his life to historical and literary events, notes on his style and his works, and more. Read the site guide.
'I have been scribbling, scribble, scribble - alas! it will be long before that makes a book.' - Thomas Carlyle

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Jane Welsh Carlyle

Life and Health

A biography, a chronology, detailed essays on aspects of her life and ill-health.

'My poor little protectress' - Thomas Carlyle

Dr John Aitken Carlyle

Biography of Thomas Carlyle's brother, the Travelling Physician. A man of considerable ability and some achievement, and more relaxed than his older brother, despite living in his shadow all his days.

‘His worst fault, indeed almost only one, is procrastination…..he needs to be stirred up…as long as I am here he can look for little rest.’ -Thomas Carlyle

Sir James Crichton-Browne - A Very Victorian Psychiatrist

The life and times (1840-1937) of an outstanding administrator, innovator, and Carlyle critic.

Ivy Compton-Burnett - 1884-1969

I've discovered this superb novelist late in life and I want others to know about her. It seems shameful that much of her work is out of print. Her near contemporary Virginia Woolf, to my mind a lesser novelist, remains in high fashion, while Dame Ivy is neglected.

Other things on this site   New: 2007: The Carlyles and the Fraser Crim.Con. Case, 1844, a paper given to the Carlyle Society, Edinburgh, in Dec. 2006. (PDF file)   New:2008: Biography or Psychobiography?  This is an essay reviewing the history of biography, its problems, the influence of Freud's theories, and the definitions of 'biography', 'psychobiography' and 'pathography'. It also discusses my choice of subjects on this site. (PDF file)New: 10/2008: The Carlyles and the Water Cure,  a paper given to the Carlyle Society, Edinburgh in December, 2007. (PDF file). An account of the Carlyle visit to Malvern in 1851, and their experiences of Dr Gully's Water Cure, together with a history of the Water Cure, and a brief biography of Dr James Gully.  

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Last revised March, 2008