How to Live by Helen Rickerby

Author:Helen Rickerby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

8.6.1.

I confess to a particular reason for including Carlyle, despite his lack of friendship with Eliot, because when I started saying, around age eight, that I was going to be a writer, my mother said, ‘Like Thomas Carlyle’, who, I was given to understand, was an illustrious ancestor of ours. I soon found out that was not strictly true, as he was actually her great great great uncle, so there was no direct line (and he did not in fact have a direct line of his own – due, at least in part, to his alleged impotence), but surely we must share some genetic material? I’m sure it is my granny’s nose I see in a silhouette of Carlyle’s mother, my granny who always carried peppermints to relieve the dyspepsia from which she, like Carlyle, suffered.

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