ES
's first play for children (based on a famous Victorian story), Thackeray
's Rose and the Ring, Dramatised in two acts, appeared in the anthology Plays for Schools, from her brother
's firm Sidgwick and Jackson
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Cultural formation
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB
was, historian Alex Owen
argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...
Dedications
Blanche Warre Cornish
It is discreetly dedicated (by her initials) to Jane Brookfield
, mistress of Thackeray
.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM
) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . ....
Education
Louisa May Alcott
LMA
frequently attended lectures in Boston, and was present for the speeches of both William Makepeace Thackeray
and Charles Dickens
. Though she adored Dickens's writings, she judged him in person to be an old dandy.
qtd. in
Stern, Madeleine B., and Louisa May Alcott. “Introduction”. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, edited by Joel Myerson et al., Little, Brown, 1989, pp. 3-39.
14
Education
Pearl S. Buck
Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare
Education
Maya Angelou
Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995.
12
She also enjoyed and respected...
Education
L. M. Montgomery
LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her...
Education
Frances Isabella Duberly
After her mother died she was sent to a boarding school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (which she later remembered, perhaps snobbishly, for the lack of good company). By one means or the other she...
Education
Sarah Grand
There she read authors such as Dickens
, Scott
, and Thackeray
.
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
253
She took advantage of the cultivated atmosphere in which she grew up, and yet later judged that she had been neither...
Employer
Anne Evans
She worked as an amanuensis for Thackeray
, transcribing his The Rose and the Ring. She maintained a lifelong fondness for him, and on his death in 1863 she composed an ode, full of...
Timeline
18 June 1815: Napoleon's power was decisively crushed at...
National or international item
18 June 1815
Napoleon
's power was decisively crushed at the battle of Waterloo, not far from Brussels.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
28: 379, 381
1830: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 62
1836: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...
Writing climate item
1836
William Makepeace Thackeray
published his first book, Flore et Zephyr, a collection of captioned ballet caricatures that he had drawn.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...
Writing climate item
4 November 1836
Richard Bentley
(1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens
to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
May 1839-February 1840: Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq.,...
Writing climate item
May 1839-February 1840
Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq., junior, William Makepeace Thackeray
published Catherine, a novel satirising the Newgate school of crime fiction, in serial form in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. “The Institutionalisation of the British Book Trade of the 1890s”. Development of English Book Trade: 1700-1899, edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris, Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1981.
101
January-December 1844: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Luck...
Writing climate item
January-December 1844
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, by Fitz-Boodle appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
February 1846-February 1847: William Makepeace Thackeray's The Snobs of...
Writing climate item
February 1846-February 1847
William Makepeace Thackeray
's The Snobs of England was serialised in Punch.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
August-September 1846: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Rebecca...
Writing climate item
August-September 1846
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novel Rebecca and Rowena, a sequel to Scott
's Ivanhoe, was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
January 1847-July 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous...
Writing climate item
January 1847-July 1848
William Makepeace Thackeray
's most famous novel, Vanity Fair, was serialised in monthly instalments with illustrations by the author.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
November 1848-December 1850: William Makepeace Thackeray's autobiographical...
Writing climate item
November 1848-December 1850
William Makepeace Thackeray
's autobiographical novel Pendennis appeared in twenty-four monthly parts, with his own illustrations.
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
59-67
Peters, Catherine. Thackeray’s Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality. Oxford University Press, 1987.
194
2 September 1852: The Manchester Free Library, the first major...
Building item
2 September 1852
The Manchester Free Library
, the first major British public lending library, opened in Manchester.
Black, Alistair. A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Political Contexts, 1850-1914. Leicester University Press, 1996.
70
Kelly, Thomas. A History of Public Libraries in Great Britain 1845-1975. 2nd ed., Library Association, 1977.
27
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
303-4
By 6 November 1852: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...
Writing climate item
By 6 November 1852
William Makepeace Thackeray
published his historical novel, set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1306: 1199-1201
Peters, Catherine. Thackeray’s Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality. Oxford University Press, 1987.
202
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
973
June 1853: William Makepeace Thackeray published The...
Writing climate item
June 1853
William Makepeace Thackeray
published The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, compiled from a series of critical lectures given in England, Scotland, and the United States.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
973
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Texts
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1899, p. various pages.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Centenary Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1911, p. various pages.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. “Catherine”. Fraser’s Magazine.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, editor. Cornhill Magazine. Smith, Elder.
Thackeray, William Makepeace et al. “Denis Duval”. Cornhill Magazine.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Flore et Zephyr. J. Mitchell, 1836.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Rebecca and Rowena. Chapman and Hall, 1850.
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, 1911.
Sidgwick, Ethel, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring”. Plays for Schools, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1909.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Adventures of Philip. Smith, Elder, 1862, 3 vols.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. Smith, Elder, 1852, 3 vols.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Pendennis. Bradbury and Evans, 1850, 2 vols.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. “The Luck of Barry Lyndon”. Fraser’s Magazine.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Newcomes. Bradbury and Evans, 1855, 2 vols.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Paris Sketch Book. John Macrone, 1840, 2 vols.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Rose and the Ring. Smith, Elder, 1855.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. “The Snobs of England”. Punch.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Virginians. Bradbury and Evans, 1859, 2 vols.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. Bradbury and Evans, 1848.