William Makepeace Thackeray

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...

Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened...

Austen , she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens or Thackeray . This publication, together with the anthology, suggests that LMS was pursuing...

In an Author's NoteNRS tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney , Miss Edgeworth , Mrs Sherwood and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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...

Thackeray with his daughters Minny and Anny moved to their beloved home at 2 Palace Green, Kensington.

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 venerable...

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

ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotalintroduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford. In...