William Makepeace Thackeray

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...

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 paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished...

The protagonist is called Becky Sharp, a name which interestingly combines a clue as to self-portraiture with homage to Thackeray 's equally intelligent though less sensitive and feeling heroine. This Becky is a child who...

William Makepeace Thackeray is undoubtedly the single largest influence on ATR 's writing. She wrote from an early age, having penned several novels and a tragedy by the age of fifteen.

Robert Galbraith has his own website, which details his military background and his work first for the military police and then in private security. He says his flamboyant, unusual mother came from Cornwall and went...

Felix Charlemont fights in the Napoleonic wars, and one battle scene verbally prefigures Thackeray 's account of Waterloo in Vanity Fair: The roar of artillery and musketry continued long after Charlemont fell; at length...

Although she occasionally uses the theatre metaphor employed by her father (as at the end of Old Kensington), few of ATR 's characters feel like puppets pulled on strings. As her final novel notes...

JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...

Charlotte Brontë wrote to CG to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.Edward Copeland finds...

The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson , the BrowningsRobert Browning , and her father . The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR 's childhood, still in the 1850s a...

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...