William Makepeace Thackeray

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...

When the World's Classics blurb likened Francie Fitzpatrick to Thackeray 's Becky Sharp, the eighty-nine-year-old ES wrote to tell them this was idiotic.

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...

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.

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...

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...

Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote. The one...

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...