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Carlyle ( left ) depicted with Frederick Denison Maurice | Frederick Maurice in Ford Madox Brown's painting Work ( 1865 ).

A woman with a Bobus sandwich board appears to the left of his head. Latter-Day Pamphlets was a series of " pamphlets " published by Thomas Carlyle in 1850, in vehement denunciation of what he believed to be the political, social, and religious imbecilities and injustices of the period.

The book, which at one point vindicated slavery, failed to gain the approval of the Victorian public, and is often seen as a negative turning point in Carlyle's career.