William Makepeace Thackeray

LMA frequently attended lectures in Boston, and was present for the speeches of both William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens . Though she adored Dickens's writings, she judged him in person to be an old dandy.

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

Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare , she wrote later, was my first white love. She also enjoyed and respected...

LMM attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her...

After her mother died she was sent to a boarding school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (which she later remembered, perhaps snobbishly, for the lack of good company). By one means or the other she...

There she read authors such as Dickens , Scott , and Thackeray . She took advantage of the cultivated atmosphere in which she grew up, and yet later judged that she had been neither...

It is discreetly dedicated (by her initials) to Jane Brookfield , mistress of Thackeray . It was soon translated into Dutch, and published in the USA both at New York and at Philadelphia...

Biographers have tended to adopt Robert Browning's scornful skepticism of the spiritualist movement, but it was not a fringe phenomenon. EBB was, historian Alex Owen argues, characteristic of those attracted to spiritualism by its deeply...

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 .