Bumbarge, Fugle, and Mowl
Today we visited the former home of the historian Thomas Carlyle, and his wife Jane, a modest Victorian house in a Chelsea terrace near the river. The furniture is mostly the Carlyle’s, including the sofa, on which may have rested such illustrious bums as those of Dickens, Tennyson, and Darwin. Jane Carlyle felt the need to justify such an extravagant purchase to her husband. I came, saw and bought – a sofa! – It is my own purchase, but you…