William Makepeace Thackeray

The Westminster Review said this novel was in itself a London Directory, which could have brought its author sponsorship from shopkeepers mentioned, and ought in turn to pay advertising tax.Thackeray picked...

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.

Thackeray 's review said, with apparent disdain: Supposing that Pall-mall were the world . . . [this] might be a good guide book. . . . the moral is that which very likely the author...

CG , identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed...

In August 2009 an issue of Women's Writing devoted to the silver-fork novel included several discussions of CG 's work. April Kendra argued that Thackeray learned from her as well as parodying her.Lauren Gillingham

There she read authors such as Dickens , Scott , and Thackeray . She took advantage of the cultivated atmosphere in which she grew up, and yet later judged that she had been neither...

The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a preposterous story, preposterously related. On the other hand, the Athenæum praised SG both for not shying away from serious issues and for treating them in an...

However, in the late twenties NH made arrangements with a scientist acquaintance of hers, a Dr Stafford Hatfield , to share his work space with him for the cost of half a month's rent. His...

The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to...

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...

In order to help establish herself, the future FSH took with her an introduction from William Carleton to William Thackeray .

Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...

Anne Procter and Thackeray were active in soliciting financial aid for her. John Murray and Thackeray later became her trustees.

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.