William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Gore
CG 's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore , was said to be the original of Thackeray 's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis.
Ray, Gordon Norton. Thackeray. Octagon Books, 1972, 9 vols.
2: 53, 54
She became the second wife, on 4 July...
Family and Intimate relationships Blanche Warre Cornish
The writer William Makepeace Thackeray was BWC 's first cousin once removed (a cousin—and good friend—of her father). She later recalled becoming familiar with him at an early age.
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.
3-4
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius.
qtd. in
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
6
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
15
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money).
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
42, 44
The wedding between Stoney and the Countess of...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game.
qtd. in
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
161
He set out from the wedding onwards to assert his power: among other things he refused to let...
Family and Intimate relationships Virginia Woolf
Stephen's sombre attitude was a consequence in part of his sad marital history. He married his first wife, Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray (younger daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray , sister of Anne Thackeray Ritchie) in...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
William Makepeace Thackeray died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health.
Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell, 1980.
423
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Family and Intimate relationships Bessie Rayner Parkes
Joseph Parkes , Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about...
Friends, Associates Anne Ogle
The success of AO 's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray s, Tennyson , and Swinburne . She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth .
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, 1990.
Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
31
, No. 1, West Virginia University, 1 Mar.–31 May 1993, pp. 111-15.
111
Friends, Associates Catherine Gore
CG was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton to which Disraeli , Lady Morgan , and Letitia Landon also...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...
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 .
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols.
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ 's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan , who became a close friend and for whom GJ acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover ; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold ; and...
Friends, Associates Anthony Trollope
Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray , G. H. Lewes , Richard Monckton Milnes , George Eliot , William Russell , and John Everett Millais .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Of Eliot he wrote: this gifted woman was...
Friends, Associates Adelaide Kemble
The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton , sculptor Hattie Hosmer , authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé , Henry Greville , William Makepeace Thackeray , and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning . She...

Timeline

October 1853-August 1855: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes...

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October 1853-August 1855

William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel The Newcomes was serialised in monthly parts.
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
71-5
Cruse, Amy. The Victorians and Their Books. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
225-6

December 1854: William Makepeace Thackeray, as Mr. M. A....

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December 1854

William Makepeace Thackeray , as Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, published The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. Hutchinson, 1890.
II: 296

9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...

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9 April 1855

American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
3-4, 115

November 1857-October 1859: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Virginians,...

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November 1857-October 1859

William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel The Virginians, sequel to Henry Esmond, appeared monthly, with Thackeray's illustrations.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1617: 515-16
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
75-7
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1032

January 1860: The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary...

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January 1860

The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary monthly, first appeared in London with Thackeray as editor and contributor; the first issue sold 110,000 copies.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 321-5, 554
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
150

March-June 1864: William Makepeace Thackeray's final, unfinished...

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March-June 1864

William Makepeace Thackeray 's final, unfinished novel, Denis Duval, appeared in Cornhill Magazine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
267, 973
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
83

April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...

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April 1879

James Murray —editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
93, 107, 109

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