 Since then a number of the Carlysle letters have been collected and published, including the multi-volume collection of the correspondence of both Jane and Thomas.In 1973, American scholar G. B. Tennyson described her as "one of the rare Victorian wives who are of literary interest in their own right...to be remembered as one of the great letter writers (in some respects her husband’s superior) of the nineteenth century is glory beyond the dreams of avarice.