This book of reminiscences contains Carlyle’s recollections of important men and women in his life, including his wife Jane and his father James. These works were entrusted to Carlyle’s friend and biographer, J. A. Froude, who published them after the author’s death in 1881. Carlyle’s Reminiscences of my Irish Journey in 1849, appeared the following year, and proved controversial due to its apparent lack of sympathy for the victims of the Irish famine.