ober 17, 1826 Carlyle married Jane Welsh. Welsh had been one of Irvings students and she and Carlyle had known each other for five years. In the early years of their marriage Carlyle lived at Craigenputtock and Dumfriesshire. He also at this time contributed to the Edinburgh Review and worked on Sartor Resarus. The book eventually achieved popular success. This book was a fictionalized account of his trial in which he searched for meaning in life. It is a brilliant mixture of autobiography, and German philosophy, written with bitterness and humor, this book was characteristic of Carlyles tortured and defiant spirit.In 1834, after failing to obtain several jobs he desired, Carlyle moved to London with his wife, it was at this time he started his historical work The French Revolution. However, this masterpiece that Carlyle worked so hard on almost got lost forever. After writing the first volume Carlyle lent the volume to John Stuart Mill, whose servant used it to kindle a fire, destroying all the work and all the notes. After the loss of the manuscript he worked furiously at rewriting it, and it was finished in early 1837. This book solved the financial difficulties at the time and gave him popular success, along with bringing him many invitations to lecture. After this point in Calyles life his career as a writer flourished. In 1840 he released Chartism which was followed by On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History in 1841. Just two years later he elaborated on his idea of a hero in Past and Present. Than in 1845 Carlyle turned to Cromwell as the greatest English example of an idea man, and produced Oliver Cromwells Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations. His next important work was just five years later in the Latter-Day Pamphlets in which he made the savage side of nature particularly prominent. In 1857 he started to a study on another of his heroes, Fredrick the Great, and The History of Friedrich II of Pruss...
