William Makepeace Thackeray

On this recommendation she agreed to become a companion to William Makepeace Thackeray 's daughters.

She worked as an amanuensis for Thackeray , transcribing his The Rose and the Ring. She maintained a lifelong fondness for him, and on his death in 1863 she composed an ode, full of...

Savkar Altinel in the Times Literary Supplement was highly critical of this novel, but the following year Patricia Craig , in the same journal, was more appreciative, crediting ZF with a sure touch with...

MF published her unusual pastiche autobiography or biographical study, William Makepeace Thackeray : Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman.

Margaret Forster 's tally of books, which began to appear in the later twentieth century, neared forty. They run the gamut from novels at one end to history and biography at the other, emphasising the...

This is affectionately dedicated to Gordon Forster, Esq.—a suitably Victorian designation for the author's brother. It is illustrated with Thackeray 's own delightful line-drawings.

MF followed this in 1984 with an edited selection of Thackeray 's own genuine writing, again illustrated with his own sketches: Drawn from Life: The Journalism of William Makepeace Thackeray. This book aims to...

EG attended the opening of the Manchester Free Library , the first major, free public lending library in England, at which speakers included Charles Dickens , Edward Bulwer Lytton and William Makepeace Thackeray .

EG devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852. A sense of her...

Strained in her relationship with Dickens , and despite not entirely easy relations with Thackeray , EG placed Curious if True in the first issue of Thackeray's new Cornhill Magazine in February 1860.

Illustrated by George du Maurier , this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope and Thackeray , and shared the lead with Collins 's Armadale. EG received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's...

Like her first novel to see print, Gee says, this one took seven years to find a publisher. Speaking about it at a date fairly early in its long quest for print, she mentioned that...

Among five favourable reviews later quoted, the Daily Telegraph offered an apparently enthusiastic plot-summary. The Liverpool Daily Post likened the work to Thackeray 's Henry Esmond, 1852.

Charlotte Brontë wrote to CG to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.Edward Copeland finds...

Edward Copeland calls this Gore's most serious and ambitious novel, one that attempts the same social and historical reach as Thackeray 's Vanity Fair, as well as a self-conscious valediction to the silver fork novel.