Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurst 1842-1933, American clergyman and reformer, b. Framingham, Mass., grad. Amherst 1866, and studied theology at Halle and Leipzig. He was pastor of the Congregational Church at Lenox, Mass. (1874-80), and of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City (1880-1918). Becoming interested in municipal affairs and having been elected (1891) president of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, Parkhurst inaugurated a campaign against Tammany Hall (see Tammany ), personally collecting evidences of corruption to substantiate his charges. The campaign led to the appointment of the Lexow committee to investigate conditions and to the defeat of Tammany and the election of a reform mayor in 1894. Parkhurst's writings include Our Fight with Tammany (1895, repr. 1970) and My Forty Years in New York (1923).
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Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences.(The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, vol. 25, Duke-Edinburgh Edition)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences, ed. K.J...eds., The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, volume 25, Duke-Edinburgh...triumph of the publication of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle's letters is one of the glories...
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Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the...Scottish tradition of learning, of which Carlyle is indeed the flower. The occasion of...Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, with Murray Baumgarten as editor...
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Thomas Carlyle, 'the dismal science', and the contemporary political economy of slavery.(Essay)
Magazine article from: History of Economics Review; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Thomas Carlyle's description of political economy as...mentioned the matter in his article on Carlyle for Palgrave's Dictionary of Political...Science (1935, p. 26) drew attention to Carlyle's other 'endearing' epithet for political...
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The Case of Thomas Carlyle.
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...works he wrote and edited about Carlyle has not even yet spent itself...unhappy concerns the biography of Thomas Carlyle, and the publication of his private...above. At his death in 1881, Carlyle was among the most revered writers...
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"Our own periodical pulpit": Thomas Carlyle's sermons.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...prophecy to describe the writings of Thomas Carlyle. The authoritative commands...makes it difficult to describe Carlyle's work without recourse to the...Accordingly, many critics have seen in Carlyle's major works an increasing propensity...
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Naseby's pioneering archaeologist: spurred into action by the false presumptions of Thomas Carlyle, the antiquarian Edward FitzGerald sought to piece together the momentous events of June 14th, 1645.
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Elucidations (1845), the Scottish writer and historian Thomas Carlyle states of Naseby: 'Ample details of this Battle...he wrote, 'W. M. Thackeray took me to tea with [Thomas] Carlyle whom I had not previously known. He was then busy...
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Coping with catalogues: Thomas Carlyle in the British Museum.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...in the splendid old building. Thomas Carlyle over and over criticised the British...However, the intellectually elitist Carlyle also disapproved of those BM readers...these inconveniences to study, Carlyle had frequently sought access to...
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Thomas Carlyle.(Book review)(Brief review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2007; ; 356 words
; Carlyle, Thomas Thomas Carlyle. John Morrow. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006. 301 pp. Euro21,68. Morrow has submitted ... an introduction to Carlyle's political thinking. Without reservation it can be called successful. Matthias...
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Thomas Carlyle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 461 words
; 9781852855444 Thomas Carlyle. Morrow, John. Hambledon &...Irascible, fierce and Scots to the core, Carlyle did not fit the mold of the upper class...the equally upwardly mobile Dickens, Carlyle managed to become one of the most influential...
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'Do you admire Thomas Carlyle?'
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...the real picture. Do you admire Thomas Carlyle? As early as the 1840s, in Heroes...in History is the only work of Carlyle which I find entirely readable...admire the chapter on Mohammed. Carlyle respected Islam as resembling Christianity...
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Thomas Carlyle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Carlyle The British essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was the leading social critic of early...materialism and mechanism during the industrial revolution. Thomas Carlyle was born at Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire, Scotland...
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Carlyle, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881), was born in Dumfriesshire...used to light a fire while on loan to J. S. Mill , but Carlyle rewrote it. This work established Carlyle's reputation, and he from this time onward strengthened...
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Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle 1801-66, English woman of letters; wife of Thomas Carlyle , whom she married in 1826. She possessed a...and J. Markus (2000); studies of the Carlyle marriage by T. Holme (1965, repr. 2000...
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Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh (1801–66), married Thomas Carlyle in 1826, and is remembered as one of the best letter...in Edinburgh and Liverpool and, most notably, to Thomas himself. Various collections and selections of her...
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Davis, Thomas
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Davis, Thomas (1814–45), Young Irelander . Son of an English army surgeon...Co. Cork, and educated at Trinity College , Dublin. Influenced by Thomas Carlyle and other Romantic writers, he first enunciated his ideas of Irish...
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