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On 23 January 1832, while Carlyle was in London, he learned that his father James Carlyle had died at the family home in Dumfriesshire two days previously. Stunned by this news, and unable to attend the funeral, his mind was forcibly turned to his earliest memories, inducing him to write a reminiscence of his father and of his own childhood.
Carlyle and the Defence were supported by John Ruskin, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and Charles Kingsley. [116] [117] From December 1866 to March 1867, [118] Carlyle resided at the home of Louisa Baring, Lady Ashburton in Menton, where he wrote reminiscences of Irving, Jeffrey, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth.
Mrs Bell explains that, 'owing to a fortunate conjunction of circumstances', Robert Allan was the only artist who witnessed the interment of the writer Thomas Carlyle, on 10 February 1881 in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire. [26] His watercolour Funeral of Thomas Carlyle owes more to the French rustic naturalist school than is evident in most of his ...
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Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace is a house in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, in which Thomas Carlyle, who was to become a pre-eminent man of letters, was born in 1795. The house was built in 1791 by Carlyle's father James and James' brothers John and Tom, stonemasons all. [ 1 ]