William Makepeace Thackeray

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...

Most of the letters here are addressed to CL 's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle and her cousin Adela Smith . Hating the round...

Austen , she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens or Thackeray . This publication, together with the anthology, suggests that LMS was pursuing...

But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat...

EJ contributed an introduction to a volume, the seventh in John Lehmann 's The Chiltern Library, published in 1947 and containing two titles by Elizabeth Gaskell . In her introduction to Thackeray 's Vanity...

ATR 's acclaimed introductions to Smith, Elder 's 13-volume Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray were launched with the publication of Vanity Fair.

A 26-volume Centenary Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray was published with revised introductions by ATR .

MF published her unusual pastiche autobiography or biographical study, William Makepeace Thackeray : Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman.

AMFR published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë , Thackeray , Les Browning [both Elizabeth and Robert ], Rossetti.

While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh

She also provided introductions for editions of Jane Austen 's Persuasion, 1946, William Makepeace Thackeray 's The Newcomes, 1954, and Anthony Trollope 's Barchester Towers, 1958.

SM was influenced by spiritualism, though she was often unsure whether to be amazed or amused. For news of the movement, she and her husband read the Tribune and the Albion from New York. John Moodie

When managing her own schooling, she wrote essays (on Macaulay who fascinated, on Thackeray who distinctly bored), tortured pieces, overflowing with quotations, leaden with words, . . . dragged out of myself by the sweat...

Here AP 's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:...

ELL 's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden : titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot