The Politics of Irony in Thackeray ’ s Mature Fiction: Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, The Newcomes.

Thackeray ’ s Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality.

On 15 November 1712, Hamilton fought a celebrated duel with Charles Mohun, Lord Mohun in the Hyde Park, London, in an episode narrated in Thackeray ’ s The History of Henry Esmond.

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 list of Lowell Lecturers during his tenure was a veritable pantheon of the most internationally celebrated figures in science, literature, political economy, philosophy, and theology, including Britain ’ s most celebrated geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, and novelists Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.

Raj ’ s father Shrikant Thackeray was a musician, cartoonist and was also well versed in the language of Urdu.

Bal Thackeray has been a huge influence on Raj ’ s life.

The popular rumor being that he was being " sidelined " by Bal Thackeray ’ s son Uddhav.

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.

* Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie ( 1837-1919 ), a British writer, the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray

It was at Smith's house at Hampstead that Stephen met his first wife, Harriet Marian ( 1840 – 1875 ), daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, with whom he had a daughter, Laura Makepeace Stephen ( 1870 – 1945 ); after her death he married Julia Prinsep Jackson ( 1846 – 1895 ), widow of Herbert Duckworth.

While in India he had married ( 1772 ) Jane Thackeray, daughter of Dr. Thomas Thackeray, headmaster of Harrow, and a great-aunt of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.

They have one son named Amit Thackeray and one daughter Urvashi Thackeray.

Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal ( literally, United Maharashtra Movement ) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital.

* William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1811 – 1863 ), writer

He included Thackeray and Dickens among his friends in a literary coterie in which he had the reputation of a wit and a writer of vers de societe.

Anne Becher and William Makepeace Thackeray, c. 1813

Anne Becher and Richmond Thackeray were married in Calcutta on 13 October 1810.

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.

* Anne Isabella Thackeray

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 ”.

Presumably after having read The Story of Elizabeth by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, she had the idea of trying her own talent and produced her first work within six weeks.

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.

The son of Rev Francis Thackeray and Mary Anne Shakespeare, he was the first cousin of the novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray.

Rhoda Broughton never married, and some critics assume that a disappointed attachment was the impulse that made her try her pen instead of some other literary work like that of Mrs. Thackeray Ritchie.

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.

Upon his visit to Dublin in 1845, William Makepeace Thackeray observed: " The street is exceedingly broad and handsome ; the shops at the commencement, rich and spacious ; but in Upper Sackville Street, which closes with the pretty building and gardens of the Rotunda, the appearance of wealth begins to fade somewhat, and the houses look as if they had seen better days.

During a visit to London in 1831 he was introduced to Thackeray and Thomas Carlyle, while through the Austins he made the acquaintance of other literary figures.

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.

Virginia Woolf used it, citing Thackeray, in her 1929 essay A Room of One's Own.

Thackeray has Rosalind using their as a polite circumlocution, perhaps avoiding the directness of she ... her, and generic his in a context involving only women ; or perhaps with Rosalind meaning the statement to apply to people in general with Becky Sharp as an example.

Thackeray desperately sought cures for her, but nothing worked, and she ended up confined in a home near Paris.

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 ).

Procter became engaged in 1858, according to a letter that her friend William Makepeace Thackeray wrote to his daughters that year.

" British author Thomas Hughes referred to Lowell as one of the most important writers in the United States: " Greece had her Aristophanes ; Rome her Juvenal ; Spain has had her Cervantes ; France her Rabelais, her Molière, her Voltaire ; Germany her Jean Paul, her Heine ; England her Swift, her Thackeray ; and America has her Lowell.

His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement ( United Maharashtra movement ), which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state of Maharashtra.

Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray ( 1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815 ), was secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company.

* Prabodhankar Thackeray, the father of Bal Thackeray

His father was the classical scholar H St. J Thackeray.

He was given this role in 2004, taking over from his father and party founder, Hindu nationalist politician Balasaheb Thackeray.

His mother, Emily Taylor ( Cheryl Lynn Bruce ), is ill. Thackeray learns that she loved him back but her father retained all his letters, because she had gotten pregnant, so that young man he had just met is his son.