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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's first play for children (based on a famous Victorian story), Thackeray
's Rose and the Ring, Dramatised in two acts, appeared in the anthology Plays for Schools, from her brother
's firm Sidgwick and Jackson
. |
Textual Production | Ethel Sidgwick | Her Thackeray
's Rose and the Ring was here reprinted from the anthology of 1909. ES
published Two Plays for Schools: The Three Golden Hairs; The Robber Bridegroom (after Wilhelm Carl GrimmGrimm
), in 1922, followed in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Sharp | 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... |
Textual Features | Dorothy L. Sayers | 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... |
Textual Features | Lady Margaret Sackville | Austen
, she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens
or Thackeray
. Austen, Jane. “Introduction”. Jane Austen, edited by Lady Margaret Sackville, Herbert & Daniel, p. ix - xvi. xi |
Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | J. K. Rowling | 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... |
Reception | Martin Ross | 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. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 275 |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | A. Mary F. Robinson | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Robinson | The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray
than to Bunyan
. |
Residence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Thackeray
with his daughters Minny
and Anny
moved to their beloved home at 2 Palace Green, Kensington. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. xxiii Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 125 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | William Makepeace Thackeray
died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health. Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell. 423 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Makepeace Thackeray |
Timeline
October 1853-August 1855: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes...
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October 1853-August 1855
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novelThe Newcomes was serialised in monthly parts.
December 1854: William Makepeace Thackeray, as Mr. M. A....
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December 1854
William Makepeace Thackeray
, as Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, published The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children.
9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...
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9 April 1855
American Daniel Dunglas Home
arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.
November 1857-October 1859: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Virginians,...
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November 1857-October 1859
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novelThe Virginians, sequel to Henry Esmond, appeared monthly, with Thackeray's illustrations.
January 1860: The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary...
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January 1860
The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary monthly, first appeared in London with Thackeray
as editor and contributor; the first issue sold 110,000 copies.
March-June 1864: William Makepeace Thackeray's final, unfinished...
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March-June 1864
William Makepeace Thackeray
's final, unfinished novel, Denis Duval, appeared in Cornhill Magazine.
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
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April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
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