William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Wealth and Poverty Anna Brownell Jameson
Anne Procter and Thackeray were active in soliciting financial aid for her. John Murray and Thackeray later became her trustees.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press.
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Travel Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Visiting Paris with her sister and father , Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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after the recent coup d'état.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB visited London, where she met Thackeray and Harriet Martineau , both of whom she admired.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Travel Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) travelled to Italy with her father and sister.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
85, 89
Travel Charlotte Brontë
During the visit, she attended a Thackeray lecture, viewed paintings at Somerset House , went to the Great Exhibition several times, and saw the great actress Rachel perform twice.
Travel Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) and her sister wintered in Paris during their father 's second American tour.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Travel Blanche Warre Cornish
During their first years in this house they made frequent visits to Thackeray and his daughters Minny and Anny at 2 Palace Green, Kensington.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin.
55, 69, 76
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
A second section of the Commonplace Book is entitled Literature and Art (and covers Southey , Arnold and Thackeray ); a third section is headed Notes on Art.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Thackeray had decreed that she must not participate in a biography about him, so her notes and introductions to her father's work eschew chronological organisation. This suited her well since she had no mind for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anthony Trollope
The critical opinions he voices here are often cited. Chapter 13, entitled On English Novelists of the Present Day, gives first place to Thackeray and second to George Eliot . On her he voices...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Thackeray Ritchie
It provides a vivid anecdotal account of her childhood and adolescence, and treats fully also of her father and his circle of friends.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
225-6
While the portraits gave a sense of intimacy, they also respected...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text A. Mary F. Robinson
It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...
Textual Production George Eliot
GE 's historical novel Romola appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton .
Her partner G. H. Lewes had just accepted, upon the departure of Thackeray as editor in March...
Textual Production Blanche Warre Cornish
Blanche Warre Cornish edited, and contributed biographical reminiscences to, Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray ; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish, published at Boston, Massachusetts.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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18 June 1815: Napoleon's power was decisively crushed at...

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18 June 1815

Napoleon 's power was decisively crushed at the battle of Waterloo, not far from Brussels.

1830: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...

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1830

William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans went into partnership and established the publishing firm of Bradbury and Evans in London.

1836: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...

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1836

William Makepeace Thackeray published his first book, Flore et Zephyr, a collection of captioned ballet caricatures that he had drawn.

4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...

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4 November 1836

Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.

May 1839-February 1840: Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq.,...

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May 1839-February 1840

Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq., junior, William Makepeace Thackeray published Catherine, a novel satirising the Newgate school of crime fiction, in serial form in Fraser's Magazine.

3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...

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3 May 1841

The London Library , established by Thomas Carlyle with Harriet Martineau , Dickens , Thackeray , and others, first opened its doors.

March 1843: The Society of British Authors was forme...

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March 1843

January-December 1844: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Luck...

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January-December 1844

William Makepeace Thackeray 's novelThe Luck of Barry Lyndon, by Fitz-Boodle appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.

February 1846-February 1847: William Makepeace Thackeray's The Snobs of...

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February 1846-February 1847

William Makepeace Thackeray 's The Snobs of England was serialised in Punch.

August-September 1846: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Rebecca...

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August-September 1846

William Makepeace Thackeray 's novelRebecca and Rowena, a sequel to Scott 's Ivanhoe, was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.

January 1847-July 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous...

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January 1847-July 1848

William Makepeace Thackeray 's most famous novel, Vanity Fair, was serialised in monthly instalments with illustrations by the author.

November 1848-December 1850: William Makepeace Thackeray's autobiographical...

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November 1848-December 1850

William Makepeace Thackeray 's autobiographicalnovelPendennis appeared in twenty-four monthly parts, with his own illustrations.

2 September 1852: The Manchester Free Library, the first major...

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2 September 1852

The Manchester Free Library , the first major British public lending library, opened in Manchester.

By 6 November 1852: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...

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By 6 November 1852

William Makepeace Thackeray published his historical novel, set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne.

June 1853: William Makepeace Thackeray published The...

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June 1853

William Makepeace Thackeray published The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, compiled from a series of critical lectures given in England, Scotland, and the United States.

Texts

Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1899, p. various pages.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Centenary Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1911, p. various pages.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, editor. Cornhill Magazine. Smith, Elder.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin, 1911.
Sidgwick, Ethel, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring”. Plays for Schools, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1909.