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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020209
Author:JB Pick

Thomas and Jane Carlyle: Portrait of a marriage by Rosemary Ashton Chatto & Windus pounds 25

The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme Persephone Books pounds 10

Scottish prophets are not noted for spreading sweetness and light. Thomas Carlyle was a thrawn, cantankerous outsider who became to his intense irritation the mocked and revered Sage of Chelsea, and a source of indulgent pride to the London Establishment. He groaned in travail as he shook history into startled life with The French Revolution, and rolled out Gothic extravagances of denunciation against the greedy, crass and materialistic ...

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