William Makepeace Thackeray

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.

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...

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...

Strained in her relationship with Dickens , and despite not entirely easy relations with Thackeray , EG placed Curious if True in the first issue of Thackeray's new Cornhill Magazine in February 1860.

After she became established as a novelist, CC was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...

The first number of the Cornhill, January 1860, carried a poem by CC which the editor, Thackeray , called noble and touching, but after he declined another poem submitted that April Clive contributed nothing further.

Harriet Martineau was amazed when AM first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood ) must have been almost equally amazed...

During the same year, 1911, BWC contributed Thackeray and his Father's Family to the Cornhill (new series 31), and the following year, 1912, she contributed An Impression of Thackeray in his Last Years to the...

The merits of annuals in general were debated, and with some their contents became a byword for poor literary quality. Thus although Christian Isobel Johnstone considered LEL's Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book for 1836 to...

Responses to More's tracts, as to most of her work, reflected their deliberately controversial project. She was widely praised for them among her own class. Someone said she let the poor know that the rich...

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...

Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane...

As well as the songs already mentioned, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography names The Hundred Pipers and Wha'll be King but Charlie? as among the handful of COLN 's songs that remained common currency...

H. F. Chorley , reviewing for the Athenæum, considered this the most melancholy tale he could recall, and argued that it was not wholesome or an accurate depiction of nature to argue via fiction...

When the World's Classics blurb likened Francie Fitzpatrick to Thackeray 's Becky Sharp, the eighty-nine-year-old ES wrote to tell them this was idiotic.