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Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace
As it appeared in 1904
Location	Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway
Coordinates	55°03′33″N 3°15′51″W / 55.059144°N 3.264246°W / 55.059144; -3.264246
Listed Building – Grade A
Official name	Arched House including Carlyle's Birthplace
Designated	3 September 1971
Reference no.	LB10065

Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace is a house in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, in which Thomas Carlyle, who was to become a pre-eminent man of letters, was born in 1795.

The house was built in 1791 by Carlyle's father James and James' brothers John and Tom, stonemasons all. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland, registered as a Category A listed building. Architecturally, the home exemplifies 18-century Scottish Vernacular. It first opened to the public in 1881 and remains much as it was then. Many of Carlyle's belongings are housed along with a collection of portraits and photographs relating to his life. Carlyle lived here with his brother John Aitken Carlyle who would go on to translate Dante's Inferno into English. It was from here that Thomas Carlyle walked nearly one hundred miles in order to attend the University of Edinburgh at the age of 13, intending for the ministry.

References

1. Sloan, John MacGavin (1904). The Carlyle Country. London Chapman & Hall. p. 30.
2. Historic Environment Scotland. "ECCLEFECHAN VILLAGE, HIGH STREET, ARCHED HOUSE INCLUDING CARLYLE'S BIRTHPLACE (LB10065)". Retrieved 4 March 2022.
3. Scotland, National Trust for (3 March 2022). "Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace". National Trust for Scotland. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
4. "National Trust for Scotland, Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
5. Dante Alighieri (1849). Dante's Divine comedy: The Inferno. Translated by Carlyle, John Aitken. New York: Harper & Brothers.
6. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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Allusions Philosophy Prose style
People	William Allingham Jane Welsh Carlyle Ralph Waldo Emerson Francis Espinasse John Forster James Anthony Froude Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Leigh Hunt Edward Irving Kitty Kirkpatrick John Stuart Mill John Ruskin John Sterling
Places	Arched House Scotsbrig 21 Comely Bank Craigenputtock 5 Cheyne Row London Library Statue
Works	Sartor Resartus (1831) The French Revolution: A History (1837) On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History (1841) Past and Present (1843) Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1845) Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850) The Life of John Sterling (1851) History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (1858–1865) Critical and Miscellaneous Essays "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" (1849) Reminiscences (1881) Correspondence with Emerson
Ideas	Captain of Industry Carlyle circle Condition-of-England Question Dismal Science Great Man theory Natural Supernaturalism Sage writing
Related	Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by James McNeill Whistler Dryasdust Laborare est Orare Phoenix Smelfungus Thomas Carlyle (Millais) "Thomas Carlyle and His Works" by Henry David Thoreau Vates Yggdrasil

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