The biography of the most important social and political thinker of the Victorian era, with a bibliography by John Anderson of the British Museum.Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum and also wrote biographies of Milton, Emerson, Gibbon and Coleridge."This is an admirable book. Nothing could be more felicitous and fairer than the way in which he takes us through Carlyle's life and works."- Pall Mall Gazette