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Thackeray, William Makepeace
(b. Calcutta, Aug. 12th, 1811; d. Kensington, Dec. 24th, 1863). “Flore et Zephyr” (London and Paris, 1836); “The Paris Sketch Book” (1840); “The Second Funeral of Napoleon,” and “The Chronicle of the Drum” (1841); “The Irish Sketch Book” (1843); “Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo” (1845); “Vanity Fair” (1847); “Mrs. Perkins’s Ball” (1847); “Our Street” (1848); “Dr. Birch and his Young Friends” (1849); “The History of Pendennis” (1849–50); “Rebecca and Rowena” (1850); “The Kickleburys on the Rhine” (1851); “Esmond” (1852); “The Newcomes” (1855); and “The Virginians” (1857); besides the following, contributed to The Cornhill Magazine, Fraser’s Magazine, and Punch:—“The Hoggarty Diamond,” “Catherine,” “Barry Lyndon,” “Jeames’s Diary,” “The Book of Snobs,” “Roundabout Papers,” “Lovel the Widower,” “The Adventures of Philip,” “Denis Duval,” and “Novels by Eminent Hands.” See also his lectures on “The Four Georges,” “The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century,” and “The Orphan of Pimlico.” For Biography, see
“Thackerayana” (1875); “Thackeray, the Humorist and Man of Letters” (1864); Trollope’s “Thackeray” (1879); and a Selection from his Letters which appeared in Scribner’s Magazine in 1887, and was afterwards published in volume form. For Criticism, see Roscoe’s “Essays,” Senior’s “Essays on Fiction,” Hannay’s “Characters and Sketches,” and “Studies on Thackeray,” etc.
