William Makepeace Thackeray

ATR 's work continually and creatively blurs generic boundaries, just as it tends to straddle the private and the public, the personal and the political. Her work is in many respects an astute negotiation of...

Robert Galbraith has his own website, which details his military background and his work first for the military police and then in private security. He says his flamboyant, unusual mother came from Cornwall and went...

The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary...

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...

The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray than to Bunyan .

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 .

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...

She herself thought this better than her novels, but Thackeray satirised it as Heavenly Chords; A Collection of Sacred Strains by Lady Frances Juliana Flummery. Susan Ferrier agreed with the author that the prayers...

Thackeray wrote scathingly about this novel: If this is exclusive love, it should be a lesson to all men never to marry a woman beyond the rank of a milk-maid and vice-versa. He used...

Thackeray 's review of the novel complimented LEL on her style but repeated the affective fallacy that operated so strongly in criticism of her poetry: The wit of it is really startling; and there are...

The controversial quality of this book made it popular in the USA as well as in England, and several new editions followed. Thackeray , however, wrote: We never met with a book more pernicious or...

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...

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.

Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her.Thackeray 's J. J. Ridley in The Newcomes,...