Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Education | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
frequently attended lectures in Boston, and was present for the speeches of both William Makepeace Thackeray
and Charles Dickens
. Though she adored Dickens's writings, she judged him in person to be an... |
Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series. 12 |
Performance of text | Sir J. M. Barrie | James Barrie
's fifth play, Becky Sharp (titled from the protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair), was first performed. Also this year he collaborated with Arthur Conan Doyle
on a libretto for Jane Annie. “Peter Pan: a selling exhibition of memorabilia”. C20th.com. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 55 |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | 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... |
Reception | Matilda Betham-Edwards | 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... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand... |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray
, according to his daughter Anne
. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 9 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
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... |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
visited London, where she met Thackeray
and Harriet Martineau
, both of whom she admired. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 617-22 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | During the visit, she attended a Thackeray
lecture, viewed paintings at Somerset House
, went to the Great Exhibition several times, and saw the great actress Rachel perform twice. |
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 Setting | Rhoda Broughton | The disparity in age between husband and wife in this novel, unlike that in Nancy, suggests only insurmountable difference. Belinda Churchill, resident in an ancient university town which Broughton calls Oxbridge, marries the... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Timeline
18 June 1815: Napoleon's power was decisively crushed at...
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18 June 1815
1830: William Bradbury and Frederick Mullet Evans...
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1830
William Bradbury
and Frederick Mullet Evans
went into partnership and established the publishing firm of Bradbury and Evans
in London.
1836: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...
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1836
William Makepeace Thackeray
published his first book, Flore et Zephyr, a collection of captioned ballet caricatures that he had drawn.
4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...
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4 November 1836
Richard Bentley
(1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens
to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.
May 1839-February 1840: Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq.,...
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May 1839-February 1840
Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq., junior, William Makepeace Thackeray
published Catherine, a novel satirising the Newgate school of crime fiction, in serial form in Fraser's Magazine.
3 May 1841: The London Library, established by Thomas...
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3 May 1841
The London Library
, established by Thomas Carlyle
with Harriet Martineau
, Dickens
, Thackeray
, and others, first opened its doors.
March 1843: The Society of British Authors was forme...
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March 1843
The Society of British Authors
was formed.
January-December 1844: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Luck...
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January-December 1844
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novelThe Luck of Barry Lyndon, by Fitz-Boodle appeared serially in Fraser's Magazine.
February 1846-February 1847: William Makepeace Thackeray's The Snobs of...
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February 1846-February 1847
William Makepeace Thackeray
's The Snobs of England was serialised in Punch.
August-September 1846: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Rebecca...
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August-September 1846
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novelRebecca and Rowena, a sequel to Scott
's Ivanhoe, was serialised in Fraser's Magazine.
January 1847-July 1848: William Makepeace Thackeray's most famous...
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January 1847-July 1848
William Makepeace Thackeray
's most famous novel, Vanity Fair, was serialised in monthly instalments with illustrations by the author.
November 1848-December 1850: William Makepeace Thackeray's autobiographical...
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November 1848-December 1850
William Makepeace Thackeray
's autobiographicalnovelPendennis appeared in twenty-four monthly parts, with his own illustrations.
2 September 1852: The Manchester Free Library, the first major...
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2 September 1852
The Manchester Free Library
, the first major British public lending library, opened in Manchester.
By 6 November 1852: William Makepeace Thackeray published his...
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By 6 November 1852
William Makepeace Thackeray
published his historical novel, set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne.
June 1853: William Makepeace Thackeray published The...
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June 1853
William Makepeace Thackeray
published The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, compiled from a series of critical lectures given in England, Scotland, and the United States.
Texts
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1899, p. various pages.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Centenary Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1911, p. various pages.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, editor. Cornhill Magazine. Smith, Elder.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin, 1911.
Sidgwick, Ethel, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Thackeray’s Rose and the Ring”. Plays for Schools, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1909.