William Makepeace Thackeray

Included here were A Musical Instrument, a treatment of the Greek god Pan and of the distortions inflicted on the human life by a calling to poetry, which became one of her most anthologized...

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

She herself thought this better than her novels, but Thackeray satirised it as Heavenly Chords; A Collection of Sacred Strains by Lady Frances Juliana Flummery. Susan Ferrier agreed with the author that the prayers...

Thackeray wrote scathingly about this novel: If this is exclusive love, it should be a lesson to all men never to marry a woman beyond the rank of a milk-maid and vice-versa. He used...

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...

JWC attended a party given by Thackeray for Charlotte Brontë .

JWC criticized the party, which was also attended by Elizabeth Gaskell , William Thackeray , and Tom Taylor . Around this time JWC also met Frédéric François Chopin , who played her piano, and Caroline Norton .

As well as the songs already mentioned, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography names The Hundred Pipers and Wha'll be King but Charlie? as among the handful of COLN 's songs that remained common currency...

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...

After she became established as a novelist, CC was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...

The first number of the Cornhill, January 1860, carried a poem by CC which the editor, Thackeray , called noble and touching, but after he declined another poem submitted that April Clive contributed nothing further.

Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail . She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth , friend and...

Blanche Warre Cornish edited, and contributed biographical reminiscences to, Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray ; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish, published at Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Blanche Ritchie's childhood was peripatetic. She was apparently sent home from India to live with her grandmother in Paris. She was presumably in England when her father had a year's leave there in 1855...