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William Makepeace Thackeray, (born July 18, 1811, Calcutta, India—died Dec. 24, 1863, London, Eng.), English novelist. He studied law and art but soon became a prolific writer for periodicals, using a variety of pen names.
Perhaps best known as a novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, in 1811. His father died when he was five, and Thackeray was sent to England to be educated. He eventually attended the Charterhouse School—infamous for its discipline—and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he…
May 23, 2018 · William Makepeace Thackeray. BORN: 1811, Calcutta, India. DIED: 1863, London, England. NATIONALITY: British. GENRE: Fiction, poetry. MAJOR WORKS: The Yellowplush Correspondence (1838) The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844) Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848) The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne (1852)
Robert Fletcher, Assistant Professor, West Chester University. illiam Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta on 18 July 1811. Both his parents were of Anglo-Indian descent, and his father, Richmond Thackeray, was appointed to a lucrative position as Collector of a district near Calcutta soon after William's birth.
William Makepeace Thackeray (July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863) was an English novelist of the nineteenth century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Its heroine, Becky Sharp, is one of the stronger female characters to emerge from the nineteenth century.
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William Makepeace Thackeray - Novelist, Satirist, Critic: With Vanity Fair (1847–48), the first work published under his own name, Thackeray adopted the system of publishing a novel serially in monthly parts that had been so successfully used by Dickens.
