Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, 19th century. Portrait after a medallion. Carlyle (1795-1881) wrote a history of the French Revolution which gained him popular as well as academic fame when it was published in 1837. He also wrote The Chartist in 1840, a book opposing conventional economic thinking. Illustration from The life and times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, (1900).
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