William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Intertextuality and Influence Emma Robinson
The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray than to Bunyan .
Intertextuality and Influence Maggie Gee
Like her first novel to see print, Gee says, this one took seven years to find a publisher. Speaking about it at a date fairly early in its long quest for print, she mentioned that...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Sarah Hoey
Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
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.
O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. Modern Men. Leadenhall Press.
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She walks a...
Leisure and Society Elizabeth Gaskell
EG attended the opening of the Manchester Free Library , the first major, free public lending library in England, at which speakers included Charles Dickens , Edward Bulwer Lytton and William Makepeace Thackeray .
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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Literary responses Hélène Gingold
Among five favourable reviews later quoted, the Daily Telegraph offered an apparently enthusiastic plot-summary. The Liverpool Daily Post likened the work to Thackeray 's Henry Esmond, 1852.
Gingold, Hélène, and Harry Furniss. Financial Philosophy. Greening.
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Literary responses Emily Eden
EE herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected.
Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, pp. 7-20.
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Walter Bagehot , reviewing it for the Saturday Review, emphasized its message of social...
Literary responses Lucas Malet
Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
topic of deformity, and its involving the hero emotionally with three women (his mother as...
Literary responses George Eliot
John Blackwood was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray , too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood 's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled...
Literary responses Sarah Stickney Ellis
Lady Charlotte Guest , who was first married ten years before this book appeared, received a copy of it as a gift from her husband and read it at his behest.
Obey, Erica. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="">Wunderkammer</span> of Lady Charlotte Guest. Lehigh University Press.
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It was after...
Literary responses Catherine Gore
The Westminster Review said this novel was in itself a London Directory,
Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 425-40.
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which could have brought its author sponsorship from shopkeepers mentioned, and ought in turn to pay advertising tax.
Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 425-40.
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Thackeray picked...
Literary responses Charlotte Brontë
Harriet Martineau , finding the work attributed to herself even by members of her own family, felt that the unknown author must know not only my books but myself very well. . . . With...
Literary responses Charlotte Brontë
CB was stung by Elizabeth Rigby 's attack on the second edition in the Quarterly, which entered the debate over governesses by reviewing the novel alongside Thackeray 's Vanity Fair and the Report of...
Literary responses Jane Porter
Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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Thackeray 's J. J. Ridley in The Newcomes,...
Literary responses Catherine Gore
Edward Copeland calls this Gore's most serious and ambitious novel, one that attempts the same social and historical reach as Thackeray 's Vanity Fair, as well as a self-conscious valediction to the silver fork novel.
Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press.
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