William Makepeace Thackeray

In an Author's NoteNRS tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney , Miss Edgeworth , Mrs Sherwood and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her...

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

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.

Her Thackeray 's Rose and the Ring was here reprinted from the anthology of 1909. ES published Two Plays for Schools: The Three Golden Hairs; The Robber Bridegroom (after Wilhelm Carl GrimmGrimm ), in 1922, followed in...

EJ contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann 's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell . In her introduction to Thackeray 's Vanity...

While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh

ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.

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.

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

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...

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...

It provides a vivid anecdotal account of her childhood and adolescence, and treats fully also of her father and his circle of friends. While the portraits gave a sense of intimacy, they also respected...

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...

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.

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...