The Professor's House, the following is written: "Cather owned a copy of the book when she was a high-school student in Red Cloud, and Carlyle was the subject of her first published essay when she was a sub-freshman at the University of Nebraska."
In a review of Whiteing's The Island (1888), Cather says: "Richard Whiteing recalls the Carlyle of Sartor Resartus; a Carlyle somewhat tamed, as it were ...".