Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the eighteenth-century conventions of dignified gentlemanly discourse.
Thomas Carlyle: A Chronology. He is the oldest of nine children. His father, recognizing Thomas's unusual ability, gives him a good education. 1809 Finishes Annan Grammar School, then walks ninety miles to enter Edinburgh University, where he plans to prepare for the ministry. 1814 Leaves Edinburgh University without a degree. Teaches mathematics at Annan Academy and other grammar schools.
Perhaps the wisest single volume of history ever published in the English language was Thomas Carlyle’s massive, and massively influential, The French Revolution: A History (1837), just now republished in a fine new paperback edition, annotated and scholarly but readable, in the Oxford World’s Classics series (edited by D. E. Sorenson and B.
Carlyle’s place in literature. Thomas Carlyle: Criticism and Biography. 1795-1881. The now famous biography of Thomas Carlyle, by Mr. Froude, shed a new light on the eccentric Scotch essayist, and in some respects changed the impressions produced by his own “Reminiscences” and the Letters of his wife. It is with the aid of those two.
Thomas Carlyle was born to James and Margaret Carlyle of a Calvinist culture. It was the dream of his strict parents that Thomas Carlyle become a preacher. At the young age of five to nine years, Thomas was introduced to education at home then later sent to the village school. At the age of ten to fourteen, Thomas Carlyle attended the Annan.
He also expressed his admiration for strong leaders. This is illustrated by his six volume History of Frederick the Great (1858-1865) and The Early Kings of Norway (1875). In the last few years of his life, Carlyle's writing was confined to letters to The Times. Thomas Carlyle died at his home at 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, on 5th February, 1881.