“THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND” DECLARED BY THOMAS CARLYLE Ahmet Baran PERÇİN * ABSTRACT The Condition of England novels helped to raise the collective awareness of the literate people, and elucidated the direction of nineteenth-century and twentieth- century welfare reforms. The novels of the 1840s and 1850s, which were dedicated to industrial relations, discussed the current state of the nation realistically. Thomas Carlyle, who investigated the reasons of the French Revolution extensively, was concerned about the future of England. He introduced Chartism as a sign of a problem that had already affected the country. According to him, if the government did not take precaution and improve the living conditions of the workers, the effect would be a revolution. The problem may arrive at solution under favour of a true aristocracy that could rule the country more intrepidly and uphold the working class. This paper tries to focus on Thomas Carlyle and his declaration "Condition of England Question. It was first mentioned by Carlyle as a concept in Chartism to bring light the conditions of the British working class during the Industrial Revolution. Firstly the life of Carlyle is investigated in detail and after making reference to political background of his period, the term “Condition of England” is studied in terms of his own reflections. This is not an academic study, but an assignment prepared in a term paper format. Keywords: Victorian novel, Chartism, Condition of England, Aristocracy * M.A. Student, Kafkas University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Kars, Turkey, baranpercin55@gmail.com