William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages.
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Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Gore
CG 's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore , was said to be the original of Thackeray 's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis.
Ray, Gordon Norton. Thackeray. Octagon Books.
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She became the second wife, on 4 July...
Family and Intimate relationships Bessie Rayner Parkes
Joseph Parkes , Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about...
Family and Intimate relationships Blanche Warre Cornish
The writer William Makepeace Thackeray was BWC 's first cousin once removed (a cousin—and good friend—of her father). She later recalled becoming familiar with him at an early age.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money).
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton.
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The wedding between Stoney and the Countess of...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game.
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton.
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He set out from the wedding onwards to assert his power: among other things he refused to let...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
William Makepeace Thackeray died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health.
Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Friends, Associates William Harrison Ainsworth
At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray , Douglas Jerrold , William Wordsworth , and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank .
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press.
Friends, Associates Catherine Crowe
CC had already become a friend of Sydney Smith and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol , chemist Samuel Brown , artist David Scott
Friends, Associates Charles Dickens
As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley , William Harrison Ainsworth , and John Forster (who later became...
Friends, Associates Eliza Lynn Linton
Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant (an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor , whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends...
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
JWC attended a party given by Thackeray for Charlotte Brontë .
Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell.
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Friends, Associates Lucie Duff Gordon
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
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...

Timeline

October 1853-August 1855: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes...

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October 1853-August 1855

William Makepeace Thackeray 's novelThe Newcomes was serialised in monthly parts.

December 1854: William Makepeace Thackeray, as Mr. M. A....

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December 1854

William Makepeace Thackeray , as Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, published The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children.

9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...

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9 April 1855

American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.

November 1857-October 1859: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Virginians,...

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November 1857-October 1859

William Makepeace Thackeray 's novelThe Virginians, sequel to Henry Esmond, appeared monthly, with Thackeray's illustrations.

January 1860: The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary...

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January 1860

The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary monthly, first appeared in London with Thackeray as editor and contributor; the first issue sold 110,000 copies.

March-June 1864: William Makepeace Thackeray's final, unfinished...

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March-June 1864

William Makepeace Thackeray 's final, unfinished novel, Denis Duval, appeared in Cornhill Magazine.

April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...

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April 1879

James Murray —editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.

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