William Makepeace Thackeray

However, in the late twenties NH made arrangements with a scientist acquaintance of hers, a Dr Stafford Hatfield , to share his work space with him for the cost of half a month's rent. His...

She was said to have moved there as a result of her quarrel with the editor of the Morning Chronicle. She shared a two-room apartment up five flights of stairs with a young Anglo-French...

With her sister and father , the child Anne Thackeray moved from Paris (where the girls had been living with their paternal grandparents) to 13 Young Street, Kensington.

Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) and her sister spent an unhappy period with their grandparents in Paris during their father 's first American lecture tour.

Blanche Ritchie's childhood was peripatetic. She was apparently sent home from India to live with her grandmother in Paris. She was presumably in England when her father had a year's leave there in 1855...

Thackeray with his daughters Minny and Anny moved to their beloved home at 2 Palace Green, Kensington.

Nine months after their father 's death, Anne Thackeray and her sister Minny moved into their own house at 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington.

The merits of annuals in general were debated, and with some their contents became a byword for poor literary quality. Thus although Christian Isobel Johnstone considered LEL's Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book for 1836 to...

Responses to More's tracts, as to most of her work, reflected their deliberately controversial project. She was widely praised for them among her own class. Someone said she let the poor know that the rich...

In 1887 Coventry Patmore said of LW that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens , Thackeray , Trollope , Eliot , and Gaskell , declaring her work to be equalled only...

Geraldine Jewsbury , reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë 's Jane...

As well as the songs already mentioned, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography names The Hundred Pipers and Wha'll be King but Charlie? as among the handful of COLN 's songs that remained common currency...

H. F. Chorley , reviewing for the Athenæum, considered this the most melancholy tale he could recall, and argued that it was not wholesome or an accurate depiction of nature to argue via fiction...

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.

This is affectionately dedicated to Gordon Forster, Esq.—a suitably Victorian designation for the author's brother. It is illustrated with Thackeray 's own delightful line-drawings.