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From: The Spectator
Date: 20020126
Author:Hensher, Philip

THOMAS AND JANE CARLYLE: PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE by Rosemary Ashton Chatto, L25, pp. 548, ISBN 00701167092

Even Carlyle's contemporaries occasionally suspected that his phenomenal reputation might, in the end, amount to less than they, and he, readily supposed. The interesting thing about the decline of Carlyle's once stupendous fame - indeed, the only interesting and accurate thing to say about it - was first said, long ago, by George Eliot. In her 1855 essay on Carlyle, she wrote:

It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence: if they were all burnt, as the ...

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