Samuel Butler said that ‘It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four.’ The Carlyles may have been famous for their squabbling but there is little sign of it in Thea Holme’s ‘The Carlyles at Home’ - an entertaining look at their day-to-day routine in Victorian London. In fact, the author would have us believe that Thomas and Jane were a perfect match for each other: hypochondriacs who lived in t