Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

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.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

" The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis ( 1850 ) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.

William Makepeace Thackeray gave Vanity Fair the subtitle A Novel without a Hero.

* In 1850, novelist William Makepeace Thackeray wrote a spoof sequel to Ivanhoe called Rebecca and Rowena.

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

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Victorian Britain, like the periods before it, was interested in literature ( see Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and William Makepeace Thackeray ), theatre and the arts ( see Aesthetic movement and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ), and music, drama, and opera were widely attended.

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There was a fine miniature portrait of Anne Becher Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray, about age 2, done in Madras by George Chinnery c. 1813.

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In William Thackeray's novel Pendennis, published in 1849, the main character attends the fictional Boniface College, Oxbridge.

* William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair takes place during the Napoleonic Wars — one of its protagonists dies at the Battle of Waterloo.

William Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon made similar use of an unreliable first-person narrator and footnotes, with Thackeray using them to cast doubt on the protagonist's version of events.

It is based on the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell, which in turn is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair.

* Becky Sharp, the main character in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, is employed as a governess.

Darby and Joan appear in William Makepeace Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond ( 1852 ), when the beautiful, spoiled Beatrix taunts Esmond for his seemingly hopeless infatuation with her:

" Baymouth " in William Makepeace Thackeray's Pendennis, and " Spudmouth " in the The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, are both based on the town.

In English, Bohemian in this sense initially was popularized in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, Vanity Fair, published in 1848.

The phrase perfect storm appears in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair:

Among his models was William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, which described the society of 19th century England.

In the late 1850s the name " Queen Anne " was in the air, following publication in 1852 of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne.

In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good ; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters ; with the next prince and princess, she gives them " a little misfortune ", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.

Vanity Fair ( 1932 ) is a modernized adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name that was directed by Chester M. Franklin and starred Myrna Loy.

Most of William Ainsworth's, Charles Lever's, William Thackeray's, and Anthony Trollope's major works were initially published in illustrated monthly parts.

Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American costume drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name.

In 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, Vanity Fair was published.

They are the scene for a brief but pivotal turning point in the fortunes of anti-heroine Becky Sharp in William Makepeace Thackeray's 19th-century novel Vanity Fair, as well as a setting in his novel Pendennis.

Fiske is perhaps most famous for starring as Becky Sharp in the original 1899 production of Langdon Mitchell's Becky Sharp, a play based on William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.

William Thackeray's ( 1811-1863 ) most famous work Vanity Fair appeared in 1848, and the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte ( 1816-55 ), Emily ( 1818-48 ) and Anne ( 1820-49 ), also published significant works in the 1840s.

In 1998 he appeared in the BBC adaptations of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair and Charles Dickens ' Our Mutual Friend as the miserly Sir Pitt Crawley and the villainous Rouge Riderhood, respectively.

Lord Hertford was the prototype for the characters of the Marquess of Monmouth in Benjamin Disraeli's 1844 novel, Coningsby and the Marquess of Steyne in William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel, Vanity Fair.

It also figures in William Makepeace Thackeray's short story " The Bedford-Row Conspiracy " as the musical center piece of a political feast pitting the Whigs against the Torys and in Arnold Bennett's novel " Leonora " as music considered more suitable for a ball by the older gents to the likes of the Blue Danube Waltz.