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.

According to Balakrishna the public sector companies in response to Sena's violent pressure, began employing Maharashtrians in large numbers, the company owners didn't object to the Sena entry in to trade unionism since " Thackeray ruled like a dictator, one phone call was enough to ensure peace on the shop floor.

Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, writing papers with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair and the title characters of The Luck of Barry Lyndon and Catherine.

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.

Leech was educated at Charterhouse School, where William Makepeace Thackeray, his lifelong friend, was a fellow pupil, and at sixteen he began to study for the medical profession at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won praise for the accuracy and beauty of his anatomical drawings.

He began literary life as a translator of Dickens, Thackeray, and other English authors.

In 1966, Thackeray formed the Shiv Sena party to advocate more strongly the place of Maharashtrians in Mumbai's political and professional landscape.

* Andy Thackeray ( born 1968 ), an English former professional footballer

Although his proper place among Victorian novelists is not easy to determine, his power as a creative artist was recognized, among professional writers, by Thackeray, Kipling, Arnold Bennett, and Siegfried Sassoon, and earned the tributes of laymen as distinguished and diverse as William Morris, Lord Rosebery, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Bal Thackeray started his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal in Mumbai.

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.

Raj started his political career with his Uncle Bal Thackeray.

Shiv Sena ( Marathi: Śiv Senā, meaning Army of Shiv, also SS ), is a political organisation in India founded on 19 June 1966 by political cartoonist Bal Thackeray.

His first full-time job was as a political cartoonist for the The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, Bal Thackeray, was his colleague.

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

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Thackeray built the party by forming temporary alliances with nearly all of Maharashtra's political parties.

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.

As the Pramukh ( Chief ) of the party Balasaheb Thackeray takes all major decisions, and has claimed that he ran the Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government of 1995 to 1999 with what he called a ' remote control.

In recent times, Thackeray does not concern himself with day-to-day activities of the party, which is run by his youngest son Uddhav Thackeray.

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.

" ( Nevertheless Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death.

In 1851 Mr Brookfield barred Thackeray from further visits to or correspondence with Jane.

In the early 1840s, Thackeray had some success with two travel books, The Paris Sketch Book and The Irish Sketch Book.

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.

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 ).

The human weaknesses Thackeray illustrates are mostly to do with greed, idleness, and snobbery, and the scheming, deceit and hypocrisy which mask them.

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.

Thackeray lived with his grandmother in Paris in the 1830s and again in the 1840s.

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.

William Dean Howells saw James as a representative of a new realist school of literary art which broke with the English romantic tradition epitomised by the works of Charles Dickens and 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.

As a young man he had a wide familiarity with dramatic and literary society, meeting many writers, including Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope, and this background helped to obtain for him a large legal practice, particularly in criminal cases.

* 1811 – William Makepeace Thackeray, English author ( d. 1863 )

* W. M. Thackeray, in English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century ( London, 1853 ; new edition, New York, 1911 )

William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863 ) was an English novelist of the 19th century.

Thackeray also gave lectures in London on the English humourists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four Hanoverian monarchs.

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.

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.

* Anthony Thackeray ( born 1986 ), an English rugby league footballer

* Lance Thackeray ( 1869-1916 ), an English illustrator

* William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1811-1863 ), an English novelist

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.

" Prior's "— says Thackeray, himself no mean proficient in this kind —" seem to me amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous of English lyrical poems.

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 ".

In 1842, the English novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray, visited Westport and wrote of the town:

* There have been a number of stage adaptations, including an opera written by Ende himself and an English language version by Andy Thackeray.

Sheehan was a contemporary of the English author William Makepeace Thackeray as a young man in Paris, and he is believed to be the original of “ Captain Shandon ” in “ Pendennis .”

Colonel Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray VC, KCB ( 19 October 1836 – 3 September 1927 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Major Pendennis ' remark ( in the novel " Pendennis " by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray ) that he had read nothing of the novel kind for thirty years except Paul de Kock, who certainly made him laugh, is likely to remain one of the most durable of his testimonials, and may be classed with the legendary question of a foreign sovereign to a Frenchman who was paying his respects, Vous venez de Paris et vous devez savoir des nouvelles.

Pendennis ( 1848 – 1850 ) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray.

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.