In The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a novel serialised in Fraser's in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme which he developed more successfully in Vanity Fair with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters.

Also notable among the later novels is The History of Henry Esmond, in which Thackeray tried to write a novel in the style of the eighteenth century.

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.

The novel is considered a classic of English literature, though some critics claim that it has structural problems ; Thackeray sometimes lost track of the huge scope of his work, mixing up characters ' names and minor plot details.

Though Thackeray does not settle definitively whether Becky murders Jos, such a development is in keeping with the overall trend of character development in the novel.

* Catherine, a serial novel by William Makepeace Thackeray

* Highbury is mentioned in Vanity Fair, the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray ; in chapter 4, the Sedleys are said to be going " to dine with Alderman Balls, at Highbury Barn.

The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.

Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq ..

The Newcomes is an novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1855.

It has also been used as the basis of a romance by Léon de Wailly ( 1838 ) and it prompted the novel contributed by Anne Isabella Thackeray to the Cornhill Magazine in 1875 entitled “ Miss Angel ”.

Steele plays a minor role in the novel The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray.

The Victorian period was the golden age of the realistic English novel, represented by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters ( Charlotte, Emily and Anne ), Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.

This is concluded by the sonnet, A Farewell to Arms, quoted by Thackeray in the seventy-sixth chapter of The Newcomes and which served as the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the same name.

Chesterfield appears in the 1757-1758 novel The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray.

There are some aspects of the relationship between Sophia and the prince that William Thackeray may have had in mind in the novel Vanity Fair regarding Becky Sharp possibly killing Joseph Sedley.

* William Makepeace Thackeray mentions her in his novel Vanity Fair.

They bought the property and named it " Bareacres " after the character Lord Bareacres in Vanity Fair ( novel ) by Thackeray.

* Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair ( novel ) by William Thackeray

The play sets its context ( not to be performed ) with an epigram by William Makepeace Thackeray, from his novel Pendennis, contained in a frontispiece: It starts: " Which is the most reasonable, and does his duty best: he who stands aloof from the struggle of life, calmly contemplating it, or he who descends to the ground, and takes his part in the contest?

Thackeray dedicated to him his novel The Adventures of Philip, and one of his ballads, Jacob Omnium's Hoss, deals with an incident in Higgins's career.

Descriptions of the demimonde can be found in Vanity Fair, a novel which satirizes 19th century society written by William Makepeace Thackeray.

William Makepeace Thackeray was a visitor to the court during Sir Charles's time and it was the inspiration for the house Castlewood which featured in his novel The History of Henry Esmond although, contrary to common belief, it is improbable that he wrote any of it at Clevedon Court.

This bloody duel was made immortal by William Makepeace Thackeray in his novel The History of Henry Esmond.

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 ".

Anne's family's deception was unexpectedly revealed in 1812, when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth to dinner.

Whether Thackeray intended this shift in tone when he began writing, or whether it developed over the course of the work's composition, is a question that cannot be settled.

The author Thackeray once asked him " when England conquered Jersey.

His harshest critic was Augustus Moore, who wrote " God help English literature when English people lay aside their Waverley novels, and the works of Defoe, Swift, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and even Charles Reade for the penny dreadfuls of Mr Haggard "; adding, " The man who could write ' he spoke to She ' can have no ear at all ".

Gawli had earlier been close to the Shiv Sena supremo, Bal Thackeray, but in 1996 a bloody feud surged between them when Arun Gawli mercilessly slew several Sena party legislators and party workers.

Thackeray was 20 years old, and a second lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 16 September 1857 at Delhi, British India for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross

The company paid royalties to these British authors, including Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, at a time when other American publishers pirated the works of those authors.

William Makepeace Thackeray, when editor of the Cornhill, published articles by him on Hogarth in 1860, which were issued in column form in 1866 ; and in the former year he was given the editorship of Temple Bar, which he held till 1863.

* Guy Thackeray – A wealthy British shipping magnate, his company EurAsia Enterprises is being stripped from him when the handover takes place on July 1, 1997.

In 1862, when Thackeray resigned the editorship of the Cornhill, Greenwood became joint editor with GH Lewes.

Thackeray dismissed Home's abilities as " dire humbug ", and " dreary and foolish superstition ", although Thackeray had been impressed when he saw a table turning.

Raj Thackeray said when asked what he would have done had he not joined politics?

Another split in the Sena came when Thackeray and his cousin Raj Thackeray had a falling-out, leading to Raj leaving the Shiv Sena in 2006 to form his own party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.

In 2010 the book made headlines when it was withdrawn from the University of Mumbai's English syllabus after complaints from the family of the Hindu nationalist politician Bal Thackeray.

In the original illustrations, which were done by Thackeray, Becky is shown behind a curtain with a vial in her hand ; the picture is labelled " Becky's second appearance in the character of Clytemnestra " ( she had played Clytemnestra during charades at a party earlier in the book ).

* Mark Thackeray, an fictitious character of the To Sir, with Love movie

Named after her father ’ s favorite character — Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray ’ s The Newcomes — she was one of the twentieth century ’ s most elegant, beautiful and gifted actresses.

The character Little Billee in Trilby is a reference to an eponymous ballad by William Makepeace Thackeray.

The book was not well received by critics, who complained of its discursive nature and poor character development ; William Makepeace Thackeray published a particularly scathing review.

The use of the element " Ethel " as an independent name is modern probably being initiated in the mid-19th century due to the name's being borne by characters in novels by W. M. Thackeray ( The Newcomes-1855 ) and Charlotte Mary Yonge ( The Daisy Chain whose heroine Ethel's full name is Etheldred-1856 ); the actress Ethel Barrymore-born 1879-was named after The Newcomes character.

Such a Long Journey was withdrawn from the syllabus of Mumbai University since it contained, in the perspective of some character in the book, discriminatory and derogatory remarks about Maharashtrians and abusive languages about Bal Thackeray, leader of Shiv Sena, a political party from Maharashtra.