William Makepeace Thackeray

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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

Thackeray (associating Morgan in his comments with Frances Trollope ) said the cultural judgements in this book were based on nothing but tea-table gossip.

The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only...

When Thackeray published his Paris Sketch-Book in 1840, he self-consciously distanced himself from what he called the tea-party prattle of Morgan and Frances Trollope (in Paris and the Parisians, 1836).

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.

Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray , G. H. Lewes , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Eliot , William Russell , and John Everett Millais . Of Eliot he wrote: this gifted woman was...

The critical opinions he voices here are often cited. Chapter 13, entitled On English Novelists of the Present Day, gives first place to Thackeray and second to George Eliot . On her he voices...

Mary Russell Mitford spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things.