Ocupation: Writer
Life: January 14, 1801 - April 21, 1866
Birthday: January 14
Death: April 21
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
source: Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press
topic: Self, Justice, Effort, Better Half