British Library Catalogue.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Ethel Sidgwick | 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
. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Dedications | Blanche Warre Cornish | It is discreetly dedicated (by her initials) to Jane Brookfield
, mistress of Thackeray
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 151 Cornish, Blanche Warre. Alcestis. Smith, Elder, 1873. prelims |
Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 |
Education | Alice Meynell | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
Education | Sarah Grand | |
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 |
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 | John Strange Winter | After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn, Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890. 24 |
Education | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
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
1830
William Bradbury
and Frederick Mullet Evans
went into partnership and established the publishing firm of Bradbury and Evans
in London.
1836
William Makepeace Thackeray
published his first book, Flore et Zephyr, a collection of captioned ballet caricatures that he had drawn.
4 November 1836
Richard Bentley
(1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens
to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
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.
3 May 1841
The London Library
, established by Thomas Carlyle
with Harriet Martineau
, Dickens
, Thackeray
, and others, first opened its doors.
March 1843
The Society of British Authors
was formed.
January-December 1844
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novelThe Luck of Barry Lyndon, by Fitz-Boodle appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
February 1846-February 1847
William Makepeace Thackeray
's The Snobs of England was serialised in Punch.
August-September 1846
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novelRebecca and Rowena, a sequel to Scott
's Ivanhoe, was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.
January 1847-July 1848
William Makepeace Thackeray
's most famous novel, Vanity Fair, was serialised in monthly instalments with illustrations by the author.
November 1848-December 1850
William Makepeace Thackeray
's autobiographicalnovelPendennis appeared in twenty-four monthly parts, with his own illustrations.
2 September 1852
The Manchester Free Library
, the first major British public lending library, opened in Manchester.
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.
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.