William Makepeace Thackeray

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

While she held Jane Eyre in contempt, she showed general admiration for Becky Sharp, protagonist of Thackeray 's Vanity Fair, calling her wonderfully clever, and amusing, and accomplished, and intelligent.[C]onsidering Becky in...

Included here were A Musical Instrument, a treatment of the Greek god Pan and of the distortions inflicted on the human life by a calling to poetry, which became one of her most anthologized...

MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...

The narrator adopts a brisk and cheery tone—commenting when her heroine has resigned herself to a useful life devoted to others, My dear little Elizabeth! I am glad that at last she is behaving pretty...

The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer...

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...