Craigenputtock

• “The alleged drudgery undergone by Mrs. Carlyle at Craigenputtock is as mythical as the injury to her health.”

  New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “Mrs. Carlyle writes: Indeed, Craigenputtock is no such frightful place as the people call it. ...”

  New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “Brothers of us and four Sisters; all yet alive, except this one), who died five years after this, at Dumfries, whither we (in Craigenputtock then) had brought her for better medical aid, to no purpose, or less than none.”

  New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “For six years beginning in 1828 the Carlyles lived on (though they did not themselves carry on) the lonely farm of Craigenputtock, the property of”

  A History of English Literature

• “The shrill notes of the bagpipe of the critic of Craigenputtock blew across the mountains and valleys of his island home, rousing the judge on the bench, and, penetrating the long halls of Cambridge and Oxford, streamed yet distinct and powerful to our shores.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “Craigenputtock would not do all for him, that he must go to London and Edinburgh to rub off his solitary neglect of manners, and strive to be like other people.”

  Manners and Social Usages

• “Living was precarious; society made demands even on a modest household, and in 1828 he at length had his way and persuaded his wife to remove to Craigenputtock.”

  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

• “Craigenputtock was a farm belonging to his wife's family, lying seventy feet above the sea, sixteen miles from Dumfries, among desolate moors and bogs, and fully six miles from the nearest village.”

  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

• “Craigenputtock, with intervals in London and Edinburgh; poverty; solitude; profound study; _Sartor Resartus_ written; reading for _French Revolution_.”

  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

• “Carlyle at Craigenputtock, the latter, pointing to the parish church, said to his American friend, "Christ's death built Dunscore Church yonder.”

  Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys

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