William Makepeace Thackeray

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...

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...

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...

Lady Charlotte Guest , who was first married ten years before this book appeared, received a copy of it as a gift from her husband and read it at his behest. It was after...

GE 's historical novel Romola appeared serially in the Cornhill Magazine, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton .

John Blackwood was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray , too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood 's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled...

Bulwer's Newgate novels were insistently skewered by William Maginn , and after 1836 by Thackeray , in Fraser's Magazine.Paul Clifford and Bulwer's later Lucretia (1846, based on an actual poisoning case) were singled...

EE herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected.Walter Bagehot , reviewing it for the Saturday Review, emphasized its message of social...

TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick

Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton , a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne and Lord Monteagle ; writers William Thackeray , Charles Dickens , Emily Eden , Elliot Warburton , Alfred Tennyson

Her war experience played havoc with FID 's gender attitudes. Amid disease, death, cruelty, and official complacency, she wrote in a letter that she had become too hard to cry for anyone but her horse:...