William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly...
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon (category Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray)
Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about...
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Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie (née Thackeray; 9 June 1837 – 26 February 1919), eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, was an English writer, whose...
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Harriet Stephen (category Thackeray family)
Stephen (née Thackeray; 27 May 1840 – 28 November 1875), was the wife of Leslie Stephen and what her father William Makepeace Thackeray called 'the balance...
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Catherine: A Story was the first novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized instalments in Fraser's Magazine...
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Thackeray (/ˈθækəri/ THAK-ər-ee) is an English surname, most notably borne by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811−1863), British novelist, author and illustrator...
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drama miniseries based on the 1848 novel of the same name by William Makepeace Thackeray. It was produced by Mammoth Screen and distributed by ITV and...
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Vanity Fair (novel) (redirect from William Dobbin)
Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends...
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The Newcomes (category Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray)
novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1854 and 1855. The Newcomes was published serially over about two years, as Thackeray himself...
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The Virginians (category Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray)
Tale of the Last Century (1857–59) is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which forms a sequel to his Henry Esmond and is also loosely...
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Pendennis (category Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray)
His Greatest Enemy (1848–50) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. It is set in 19th-century England, particularly in London. The...
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Famous novelists from this period include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the three Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot (Mary...
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footballer William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), British novelist, author and illustrator Detective Sergeant Lady Harriet "Harry" Makepeace, in Dempsey...
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Sartor Resartus (Thomas Carlyle, 1833–34), and Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847). Metafiction became particularly prominent in the 1960s...
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The son of Rev. Francis Thackeray and Mary Anne Shakespear, he was the first cousin of the novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray. He was educated at Marlborough...
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around 40,000 witnessed his death, including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. Courvoisier was born in the small village of Mont-la-Ville,...
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Dimitrios, he received top billing. He had dramatic roles, such as William Makepeace Thackeray in Devotion (1946), and witty performances in screwball comedies...
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a great-great-great-grandson of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. "THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811–1863)" in Oxford Dictionary of National...
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Vignette (literature) (section William S. Burroughs)
sketch” became popularised in the Victorian era by authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens, and their works would often appear in newspapers...
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admirer of India-born British writer William Makepeace Thackeray, and changed his own surname from Panvelkar to "Thackeray" an Anglicised version of their...
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Men's Wives (category Novels by William Makepeace Thackeray)
Men's Wives (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. Men's Wives at Project Gutenberg Men's wives at internet archive. v t e...
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the India-born British writer William Makepeace Thackeray, Keshav later anglicized the spelling of his surname to "Thackeray". When Keshav was still a teenager...
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Carroll, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray. The future Arts and Crafts proponent William Morris, then a teenager, later said he...
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statistician Karl Pearson's first book was The New Werther. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote a poem satirizing Goethe's story entitled "Sorrows of Werther"...
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controversy, and drew criticism in particular from the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, who satirised them in several of his novels and attacked the...
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Vanity Fair is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1998. The screenplay...
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passes through the material plane, is central to the character. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote under the pen name of Homunculus. The homunculus legend...
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historical drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name. The novel has been the subject...
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65 Cornhill in London. In the 1860s, under the editorship of William Makepeace Thackeray, the paper's large circulation peaked around 110,000. Due to...
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From the literary world came writers such as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, H. G. Wells, A. A. Milne (who on his death...
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