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Disraeli's relationships with other male writers of his period were strained or non-existent.
After the disaster of The Representative, John Gibson Lockhart became a bitter enemy and the two never reconciled.
Disraeli's preference for female company prevented the development of contact with those who were otherwise not alienated by his opinions, comportment or background.
One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.
Disraeli took revenge in Endymion ( published in 1880 ), when he caricatured Thackeray as " St. Barbe ".

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