William Makepeace Thackeray

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

The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary...

Charlotte Brontë wrote to CG to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.Edward Copeland finds...

William Makepeace Thackeray is undoubtedly the single largest influence on ATR 's writing.She wrote from an early age, having penned several novels and a tragedy by the age of fifteen.

In August 2009 an issue of Women's Writing devoted to the silver-fork novel included several discussions of CG 's work. April Kendra argued that Thackeray learned from her as well as parodying her.Lauren Gillingham

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...

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...

JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...

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...

The paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished...

Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...

Her one-paragraph preface says these pieces were written long since,in the days of crinoline,croquet, and the violent purples of the then new aniline dyes.

COCE headed her book with two lines from Thomas Campion : Alas, poor book . . . go spread thy papery wings. / Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame. She walks a...

Felix Charlemont fights in the Napoleonic wars, and one battle scene verbally prefigures Thackeray 's account of Waterloo in Vanity Fair: The roar of artillery and musketry continued long after Charlemont fell; at length...

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...