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TALKS AT CARLYLE'S HOUSE


In 2017 A Curious Invitation will return to Carlyle's House with a series of literary salons. Full details and dates to be announced shortly. .

Carlyle's House
Preserved in 1895 as London's first literary shrine, Carlyle's house was once a favourite gathering place for writers, including Browning, Dickens and Tennyson.

Historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane – described by Henry James as 'a most original and entrancing pair' – were a celebrity couple who lived here from 1834 to 1881. A Curious Invitation salons take place in the intimate and historic confines of the Carlyle's drawing room, reviving a tradition of the gatherings that were held there in the nineteenth century.


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