William Makepeace Thackeray

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.

Thackeray forbade his teenaged daughter Anne to waste [her] time [on] any more scribbling and instructed her to read others' writing instead.

SM was influenced by spiritualism, though she was often unsure whether to be amazed or amused. For news of the movement, she and her husband read the Tribune and the Albion from New York. John Moodie

Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...

Anne Thackeray began a journal which chronicled her anguish in the eighteen months following her father 's death.

ATR 's daughter published in the UK Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie and in the US Thackeray and His Daughter, a selection of letters and journals; both also included letters by Thackeray .

ELL 's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden : titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot

ATR 's acclaimed introductions to Smith, Elder 's 13-volume Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray were launched with the publication of Vanity Fair.

AMFR published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë , Thackeray , Les Browning [both Elizabeth and Robert ], Rossetti.

When managing her own schooling, she wrote essays (on Macaulay who fascinated, on Thackeray who distinctly bored), tortured pieces, overflowing with quotations, leaden with words, . . . dragged out of myself by the sweat...

A 26-volume Centenary Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray was published with revised introductions by ATR .

EW purchased the magazine from Alexander Strahan , who had decided to sell following the backlash prompted by Charles Reade 's sexually frank novel Griffith Gaunt. Her position as editor of a family magazine...

Illustrated by George du Maurier , this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope and Thackeray , and shared the lead with Collins 's Armadale. EG received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's...

MEB was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand...