William Makepeace Thackeray

ATR 's acclaimed introductions to Smith, Elder 's 13-volume Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray were launched with the publication of Vanity Fair.

EJ contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann 's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell . In her introduction to Thackeray 's Vanity...

A 26-volume Centenary Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray was published with revised introductions by ATR .

MF published her unusual pastiche autobiography or biographical study, William Makepeace Thackeray : Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman.

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.

While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh

She also provided introductions for editions of Jane Austen 's Persuasion, 1946, William Makepeace Thackeray 's The Newcomes, 1954, and Anthony Trollope 's Barchester Towers, 1958.

SM was influenced by spiritualism, though she was often unsure whether to be amazed or amused. For news of the movement, she and her husband read the Tribune and the Albion from New York. John Moodie

When managing her own schooling, she wrote essays (on Macaulay who fascinated, on Thackeray who distinctly bored), tortured pieces, overflowing with quotations, leaden with words, . . . dragged out of myself by the sweat...

ELL 's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden : titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot

Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...

Thackeray had decreed that she must not participate in a biography about him, so her notes and introductions to her father's work eschew chronological organisation. This suited her well since she had no mind for...

It provides a vivid anecdotal account of her childhood and adolescence, and treats fully also of her father and his circle of friends. While the portraits gave a sense of intimacy, they also respected...

A second section of the Commonplace Book is entitled Literature and Art (and covers Southey , Arnold and Thackeray ); a third section is headed Notes on Art.

Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...