biography
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| lived:
| (1795–1881)
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| biography:
| Man of letters, born in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. The son of a stonemason, he studied at Edinburgh University, and taught for several years before beginning to write articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, and becoming absorbed in German literature, notably Goethe. In 1826 he married Jane Baillie Welsh. His best-known work is Sartor Resartus (1833–4). He then moved to London, where he wrote his other major works on the French Revolution (3 vols, 1837) and Frederick the Great (1858–65). After his wife's death, he retired from public life, and wrote little. |
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