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    William Makepeace Thackeray (/ˈθækəri/ THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Thackeray (/ˈθækəri/ THAK-ər-ee) is a surname. Notable people with this surname include the following: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811−1863), British...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    pay. He was the subject of numerous poems and ballads. In 1837 William Makepeace Thackeray wrote a short story loosely based on Dando; this was made into...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Sartor Resartus (Thomas Carlyle, 1833–34), and Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847). Metafiction became particularly prominent in the 1960s...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    (Parachute) Regiment, Royal Engineers. A descendant of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, his grandfather was the former British ambassador Sir Ralph...
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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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    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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  • Barry Lyndon (category Films based on works by William Makepeace Thackeray)
    Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa...
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    she played Amelia Sedley in the ITV miniseries adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. She also made a guest appearance in the Doctor...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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