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The Chelsea house where the Carlyles lived, quarrelled and wrote for half a century, kept almost as they left it.
Also in Literary London.
Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish historian whom Victorian England treated as its sage, and his wife Jane, whose letters are the better read, took this Queen Anne house on Cheyne Row in June 1834 and stayed for the rest of their lives; he died here in 1881, and Dickens, Tennyson, Darwin, Ruskin and Chopin all climbed the stairs. It is famous for the marriage as much as the books: Jane's wit about her husband's moods runs through the rooms, and the attic study he had built in 1853, double-walled to shut out the neighbours' cockerels and pianos, which did not work, is the most eloquent room in the house. Bought by subscription in 1895 and passed to the National Trust in 1936, it is the least altered writer's house in London, with the furniture, the books, the pictures and the walled garden where Jane's dog is buried. It opens on set days from spring to autumn.
Wednesdays, by pre-booked timed entry
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