William Makepeace Thackeray

Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money). The wedding between Stoney and the Countess of...

Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game. He set out from the wedding onwards to assert his power: among other things he refused to let...

William Makepeace Thackeray died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health.

Stephen's sombre attitude was a consequence in part of his sad marital history. He married his first wife, Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray (younger daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray , sister of Anne Thackeray Ritchie) in...

Joseph Parkes , Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about...

CG 's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore , was said to be the original of Thackeray 's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis. She became the second wife, on 4 July...

The writer William Makepeace Thackeray was BWC 's first cousin once removed (a cousin—and good friend—of her father). She later recalled becoming familiar with him at an early age.

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

When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray and Alfred Tennyson .

CC had already become a friend of Sydney Smith and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol , chemist Samuel Brown , artist David Scott

AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...

As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley , William Harrison Ainsworth , and John Forster (who later became...

Kemble describes AP in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. She had, however, a strong sense of herself and her opinions, as...

Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...

Before this disaster her parents's house was frequented by such people as the author William Makepeace Thackeray and the illustrator George Cruikshank .