William Makepeace Thackeray

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). The wedding between Stoney and the Countess of...

Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game. He set out from the wedding onwards to assert his power: among other things he refused to let...

William Makepeace Thackeray died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health.

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...

ATR shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius.

CG 's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore , was said to be the original of Thackeray 's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis. She became the second wife, on 4 July...

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...

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.

GJ 's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan , who became a close friend and for whom GJ acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover ; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold ; and...

The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton , sculptor Hattie Hosmer , authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé , Henry Greville , William Makepeace Thackeray , and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning . She...

AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...

When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray and Alfred Tennyson .

Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray , G. H. Lewes , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Eliot , William Russell , and John Everett Millais . Of Eliot he wrote: this gifted woman was...

Kemble describes AP in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. She had, however, a strong sense of herself and her opinions, as...

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 .