William Makepeace Thackeray

Stephen's sombre attitude was a consequence in part of his sad marital history. He married his first wife, Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray (younger daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray , sister of Anne Thackeray Ritchie) in...

Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë , Lady Barlow (a commentator on Charles Darwin ), Dinah Mulock Craik , George Eliot ,...

Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote. The one...

EW purchased the magazine from Alexander Strahan , who had decided to sell following the backlash prompted by Charles Reade 's sexually frank novel Griffith Gaunt. Her position as editor of a family magazine...

After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, she also described herself as having always been from...

In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...

She then began producing novels in earnest: four appeared between 1859 and 1861. In 1861 (just before her sister Mary died) ST summoned the courage to submit a story to the illustrious Cornhill. In...

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...

Mary Russell Mitford spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things.

Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray , G. H. Lewes , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Eliot , William Russell , and John Everett Millais . Of Eliot he wrote: this gifted woman was...

She also provided introductions for editions of Jane Austen 's Persuasion, 1946, William Makepeace Thackeray 's The Newcomes, 1954, and Anthony Trollope 's Barchester Towers, 1958.

The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only...

When Thackeray published his Paris Sketch-Book in 1840, he self-consciously distanced himself from what he called the tea-party prattle of Morgan and Frances Trollope (in Paris and the Parisians, 1836).

Thackeray (associating Morgan in his comments with Frances Trollope ) said the cultural judgements in this book were based on nothing but tea-table gossip.

Before this disaster her parents's house was frequented by such people as the author William Makepeace Thackeray and the illustrator George Cruikshank .