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William Makepeace Thackeray From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray Born July 18 Calcutta India Died December 24 London England Occupation Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray IPA /ˈθ¦kərɪ/ July 18 December 24 ) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair , a panoramic portrait of English society Contents Life Works Reputation Trivia ... edit Life Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta India , where his father, Richmond Thackeray ( 1 September 13 September ), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company . Richmond Thackeray, born at South Mimms , went to India at the age of sixteen to assume his duties as writer. By 1804 he had fathered a daughter by a native mistress, the mother and daughter being named in his will. Such liaisons being common among gentlemen of the East India Company, it formed no bar to his courting and marrying Anne Becher. Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet and John Harman Becher, also a writer for the East India Company. They sent Anne abroad in 1809, telling her that the man she loved, Henry Carmichael-Smyth, had died. This was not true, but her family wanted a better marriage for her than with Carmichael-Smyth, a military man. She married Richmond Thackeray on 13 October . The truth was unexpectedly revealed in 1812, when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited to dinner the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth. After Richmond's death, Henry Carmichael-Smyth married Anne in 1818 and they returned to England the next year.

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Home Email Search Author ... Index Page William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811. His parents returned to England in 1817 and Thackeray was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge . However, Thackeray became addicted to gambling and left Cambridge in 1830 without a degree and heavily in debt. At first Thackeray tried to make a living as a painter but after this ended in failure he turned to journalism. Thackeray moved to Paris where he becam e the French correspondent for the radical newspaper, The Constitutional . When The Constitutional ceased publication, Thackeray moved back to England and began contributing articles to a wide variety of newspapers and journals, including The Times The Morning Chronicle Fraser's Magazine and Punch Magazine Thackeray also began writing novels and in 1844 Fraser's Magazine serialised Barry Lyndon . In 1847 Thackeray published his most famous novel, Vanity Fair . This was followed by The History of Henry Esmond Newcomes (1853) and The Virginians Although a successful novelist, Thackeray continu ed to write articles for journals such as Punch Magazine . In 1859 he became editor of the Cornhill Magazine , a monthly literary journal published by George Smith. William Makepeace Thackeray died in 1863.

3. William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray was born 18 July 1811, first and only child of Richmond Thackeray and Anne Becher Thackeray1. He was born in India, http://incompetech.com/authors/thackeray/

the website with the self-referential tagline... William "Snob" Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray was born 18 July 1811, first and only child of Richmond Thackeray and Anne Becher Thackeray . He was born in India, where his father worked for the East India Company, and sent to school in England, as was the fashion for colonial-born children, in 1817. His father had died in 1815, and shortly after William left, she remarried to her first love, Captain Henry Carmichael-Smyth . They joined William in England in 1820. Like most English children, William was miserable at school. He wasn't good at sports, though he was fairly popular in spite of that, and suffered through two poor headmasters. He also had his nose broken during a boxing match with another student named George Venables . While in school he developed two habits that were to stay with him all his life: sketching and reading novels . He later attended Cambridge, where he lost a poetry contest to one Alfred Tennyson , though several of William's satirical poems were published around this time. William also met Edward FitzGerald who remained his best friend to the end of his life.

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William Makepeace Thackeray From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray 18 July 24 December ) was an English Victorian writer. Contents Sourced Vanity Fair (1847-1848) The History of Pendennis (1848-1850) The History of Henry Esmond (1852) ... edit Sourced Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb. The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13 He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. The Book of Snobs (1848), ch. 2 The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. The Newcomes (1853-1855), Ch. 9 What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. The Newcomes , Ch. 16 The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? The Newcomes , Ch. 20

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William Makepeace Thackeray From LoveToKnow 1911 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863), English novelist, only son of Richmond and Anne Thackeray (whose maiden name was Becher), was born at Calcutta on the 18th of July 1811. Both his father and his grandfather (W. R. Thackeray) had been Indian civil servants. His mother was only nineteen at the date of his birth, was left a widow in 1816, and afterwards married Major Henry Carmichael Smyth. Young Thackeray was brought home to England from India as a child, and was sent to private schools, first in Hampshire and then at Chiswick . In 1822 he was transferred to Charterhouse , at that time still on its ancient site near Smithfield. Anthony Trollope , in his book on Thackeray in the " English Men of Letters " series, quotes a letter written to him about Thackeray's schooldays by George Stovin Venables. " He came to school young," Venables wrote, " a pretty, gentle, and rather timid boy." This accords with the fact that all through Thackeray's writings the student may find traces of the sensitiveness which often belongs to the creative mind, and which, in the boy who does not understand its meaning and its possible power, is apt to assume the guise of a shrinking disposition. To this very matter Venables tersely referred in a later passage of the letter quoted by Trollope: " When I knew him better, in later years, I thought I could recognize the sensitive nature which he had as a boy." Another illustration of this

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Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) - Pseudonyms Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, George Savage FitzBoodle English journalist, novelist, famous for his novel VANITY FAIR (1847-48), a tale of two middle-class London families. Most of Thackeray's major novels were published as monthly serials. Thackeray studied in a satirical and moralistic light upper- and middle-class English life - he was once seen as the equal of his contemporary Dickens, or even as his superior. "This I set as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes." (from Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, as the only son of Richmond Thackeray, a Collector in the East Indian Company's service. After his father died he was sent to home to England. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Thackeray abandoned his studies without taking a degree, having lost some of his inheritance of twenty thousand pounds through gambling. In the beginning of the 1830s he visited Germany, where he met Goethe During 1831-33 Thackeray studied law at the Middle Temple, London, but had little enthusiasm to continue his studies. In 1833 he brought with a large heritage the

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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? ( The Newcomes ch. 20) To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gainedwho can say this is not greatness? ( The Virginians ch. 92) Thackeray Web Sites Brief Record Display Chronicle of the Drum (e-text) Creative Quotations from William Makepeace Thackeray Pathfinder Penn State's Electronic Classics Series William Makepeace Thackeray Page Penguin ... William Makepeace Thackeray: A Brief Biography (Robert Fletcher) Vanity Fair Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray: A review by Edwin Percy Whipple from the May, 1865, issue of The Atlantic Monthly www.lib.udel.edu Before the Curtain (Preface to Vanity Fair William "Snob" Makepeace Thackeray Chronology Born July 18 in Calcutta. Death of father.

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The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,260 Forum Members: 41,657 Forum Posts: 465,479 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray Search all of William Makepeace Thackeray Advanced Search William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) , author, illustrator, and editor wrote Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero "It was an advance, and as such, perhaps, some ladies of indisputable correctness and gentility will condemn the action as immodest; but, you see, poor dear Rebecca had all this work to do for herself. If a person is too poor to keep a servant, though ever so elegant, he must sweep his own rooms: if a dear girl has no dear Mamma to settle matters with the young man, she must do it for herself. And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same. And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did." Ch. 4

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The University of Adelaide Library eBooks Help Biographical note In 1836, while acting as Paris correspondent for the second of his journals, he married Isabella, daughter of Colonel Shawe, an Irish officer, and the next year he returned to England and became a contributor to , in which appeared The Yellowplush Papers The Great Hoggarty Diamond Catherine , and Barry Lyndon , the history of an Irish sharper, which contains some of his best work. Other works of this period were The Paris Sketch-book (1840) and The Irish Sketch-book (1843). His work in Fraser , while it was appreciated at its true worth by a select circle, had not brought him any very wide recognition: it was his contributions to Punch Book of Snobs and Vanity Fair Pendennis The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century , following this up in 1855 with the Four Georges , first delivered in America. Meanwhile Esmond , perhaps his masterpiece, and probably the greatest novel of its kind in existence, had appeared in 1852, and The Newcomes The Virginians , a sequel to Esmond Cornhill Magazine was started with Thackeray for its ed., and to it he contributed

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