Thomas Carlyle's The Early Kings of Norway:…

Thomas Carlyle's The Early Kings of Norway: Also an Essay on the Portraits of John Knox appears in 1875.

He spends his last years at 24 Cheyne Row (then numbered 5), Chelsea, London SW3 (which is now a National Trust property commemorating his life and works) but he always wishes to return to Craigenputtock.

Carlyle has grown increasingly bitter following the death of his wife, Jane, in 1866, after which he had partly retired from active society.

He had been appointed rector of the University of Edinburgh.

Later writings are generally short essays, often indicating the hardening of Carlyle's political positions.

Carlyle's support for the repressive measures of Governor Edward Eyre in Jamaica, who had been accused of brutal lynchings while suppressing the Morant bay Rebellion had further alienated him from his old liberal allies.

Carlyle had set up a committee to defend Eyre, while John Stuart Mill organized for his prosecution.