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Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, Whistler
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Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, Whistler.

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Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle, helped define what it was to be "Victorian." Read their personal letters and correspondence with the likes of Charles Dickens and John Stuart Mill.

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