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Apr 24, 2012 · His early mastery of satire harkens back to the previous century, but many critics note the development of a more traditionally Victorian strain in his later works. The collected studies here comprise both Victorian views of Thackeray and modern critical assessments of those views.
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…
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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)
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.
May 30, 2019 · Long remembered as a social satirist par excellence, William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) wrote more in the manner of Henry Fielding than of Samuel Richardson and more in the realistic vein than in the style of the “novel of sensibility,” that production of the early nineteenth century that sought to achieve heightened e...
William Makepeace Thackeray. 1811 –. 1863. Read poems by this poet. William Makepeace Thackeray, born July 18, 1811, was an English writer best known for his novels, particularly The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (The Mershon Company Publishers, 1852) and Vanity Fair (Bradbury and Evans, 1848).
