Abstract: This article presents three rediscovered letters written between 1849 and 1851 by the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881). In these letters, Carlyle sets out his views on the importance of a system of universal, non-sectarian, and national education, as well as declares his support for the Lancashire Public School Association and its successor the National Public School Association. Together, these letters shed new light on the sections regarding education in Carlyle’s famous published works “Chartism” (1839), “Past and Present” (1843), and “Latter-Day Pamphlets” (1850), while suggesting that he continued to show substantial affinities with advanced liberal and radical opinion on this particular issue, despite the common belief that he became an out-and-out reactionary in later life.

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Three Rediscovered Letters by Thomas Carlyle on National Education (1849–1851)

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