William Makepeace Thackeray

The title of the Blackstick Papers alludes to the character of the Fairy Blackstick from her father 's Rose and the Ring: she places her essays under the kindly tutelage of this spirit...

In August 2009 an issue of Women's Writing devoted to the silver-fork novel included several discussions of CG 's work. April Kendra argued that Thackeray learned from her as well as parodying her.Lauren Gillingham

ATR 's work continually and creatively blurs generic boundaries, just as it tends to straddle the private and the public, the personal and the political. Her work is in many respects an astute negotiation of...

The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only...

EG attended the opening of the Manchester Free Library , the first major, free public lending library in England, at which speakers included Charles Dickens , Edward Bulwer Lytton and William Makepeace Thackeray .

The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to...

The controversial quality of this book made it popular in the USA as well as in England, and several new editions followed. Thackeray , however, wrote: We never met with a book more pernicious or...

Thackeray (associating Morgan in his comments with Frances Trollope ) said the cultural judgements in this book were based on nothing but tea-table gossip.

Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray , according to his daughter Anne .Arnold Bennett gave it very high praise. Of the passage in which Lucy Audley decides to try to murder Robert, he...

HMC was one of the handful of women cited by Johnson (as Miss Mulso) as an authority in his Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 (all of them among the fifty or so...

Among five favourable reviews later quoted, the Daily Telegraph offered an apparently enthusiastic plot-summary. The Liverpool Daily Post likened the work to Thackeray 's Henry Esmond, 1852.

EE herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected.Walter Bagehot , reviewing it for the Saturday Review, emphasized its message of social...

Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty topic of deformity, and its involving the hero emotionally with three women (his mother as...

John Blackwood was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray , too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood 's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled...

Lady Charlotte Guest , who was first married ten years before this book appeared, received a copy of it as a gift from her husband and read it at his behest. It was after...