William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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, 1990.
topic of deformity, and its involving the hero emotionally with three women (his mother as...
Literary responses Catherine Gore
The Westminster Review said this novel was in itself a London Directory,
qtd. in
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
435
which could have brought its author sponsorship from shopkeepers mentioned, and ought in turn to pay advertising tax.
Vargo, Lisa. “Lodore and the Novel of Society”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 425-40.
435
Thackeray picked...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Although she continued to write letters and journals, and produced one fairy tale, she did not attempt to write professionally until encouraged by her father to do so in 1860.
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.
36
That the young Anne Thackeray
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Gaskell
EG devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
278-9, 295
A sense of her...
names Lady Charlotte Bury
  • BirthName: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
  • Nickname: Lady Frances Juliana Flummery
    Thackeray made fun of LCB 's religious writings under this name.
    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.
    Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.

  • Married: Campbell; Bury
  • Pseudonyms: A Lady; A Lady of Rank; The Authoress of...
names Evelyn Sharp
  • BirthName: Evelyn Jane Sharp
  • Nickname: Becky
    ES inadvertently attracted this nickname by calling a schoolgirl heroine of her own creation Becky Sharp (alluding in part to Thackeray 's character of this name.

  • Married: Nevinson
  • Pseudonym: J. E. S.
Occupation Camilla Crosland
She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about...
Occupation Anne Thackeray Ritchie
As they reached adulthood, ATR and her sister came increasingly to compensate for their father's lack of a wife. Even as children, Anne recalled, he always talked to us very gravely as if we were...
Occupation Anne Evans
On this recommendation she agreed to become a companion to William Makepeace Thackeray 's daughters.
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.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix.
viii-ix
Other Life Event Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR celebrated the centenary of the birth of her father with a ceremony on Brick Court's Middle Temple, where 2,000 people gathered.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
267
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, 1996.
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politics Frances Isabella Duberly
Her war experience played havoc with FID 's gender attitudes. Amid disease, death, cruelty, and official complacency, she wrote in a letter that she had become too hard to cry for anyone but her horse:...
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail . She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth , friend and...

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