William Makepeace Thackeray

W. M. Thackeray regularly addessed his daughter in correspondence to her and others by the apparently derogatory endearment Fat. She was known throughout her life to friends and family as Anny.

ATR shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius.

With her sister and father , the child Anne Thackeray moved from Paris (where the girls had been living with their paternal grandparents) to 13 Young Street, Kensington.

As they reached adulthood, ATR and her sister came increasingly to compensate for their father's lack of a wife. Even as children, Anne recalled, he always talked to us very gravely as if we were...

Visiting Paris with her sister and father , Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées after the recent coup d'état.

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.

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) and her sister spent an unhappy period with their grandparents in Paris during their father 's first American lecture tour.

Although she continued to write letters and journals, and produced one fairy tale, she did not attempt to write professionally until encouraged by her father to do so in 1860. That the young Anne Thackeray

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) travelled to Italy with her father and sister.

The narrator adopts a brisk and cheery tone—commenting when her heroine has resigned herself to a useful life devoted to others, My dear little Elizabeth! I am glad that at last she is behaving pretty...

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) and her sister wintered in Paris during their father 's second American tour.

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.

It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...

The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray than to Bunyan .

When the World's Classics blurb likened Francie Fitzpatrick to Thackeray 's Becky Sharp, the eighty-nine-year-old ES wrote to tell them this was idiotic.