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.

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

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In William Makepeace Thackeray's novel ' Vanity Fair ' " Was Rebecca guilty or not?

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

Anne Becher and William Makepeace Thackeray, c. 1813

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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William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life.

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He spent his time writing and in the company of other writers including William Thackeray and Douglas Jerrold.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

* February 27 – George Joye publishes his Apologye in Antwerp to clear his name from the accusations of William Tyndale

* September 3 – William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge.

* William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, which describes the Earth's magnetic field and is the beginning of modern Geomagnetism.

* William Harvey publishes Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus, containing his findings about blood circulation.

* September 19 – William Lloyd Garrison publishes Angelina Grimké's anti-slavery letter in The Liberator.

* William Penn publishes his proposal for European federation, Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe.

* 1838 – 1840 – Edward William Lane publishes an English translation.

* 1785 – William Withering publishes " An Account of the Foxglove " the first systematic description of digitalis in treating dropsy

William Gilmore Simms published a novel, The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina, in the nineteenth century, and the University of South Carolina in Columbia publishes a literary journal named Yemassee.

William Cobbett publishes his newspaper as a pamphlet.

* Edward William Lane publishes an English version of The Arabian Nights

* Samuel Ireland publishes a collection of Shakespearean forgeries in his Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare ( dated this year but actually produced on 24 December 1795 ).

* William Pearson publishes An Introduction to Practical Astronomy.

* William Klein publishes his photo essay New York, 1954 – 55.

* William Gilbert publishes De Magnete in England, describing Earth's magnetic field ; beginning of the modern science of geomagnetism.

* William How publishes his flora Phytologia Britannica.

* William Farish of the University of Cambridge publishes a systematization of the rules for isometric drawing.

* William Jackson Hooker publishes Flora Scotica ; or, A description of Scottish plants.

* Irish astronomer William Rowan Hamilton publishes Theory of Systems of Rays.

* William Beaumont publishes Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.

* 1844 (- 1849 )-George Robert Gray head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum publishes Genera of Birds ( 1844 – 49 ), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf.

* 1961 – William Homan Thorpe publishes Bird-Song.

* William Whewell publishes The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, introducing the terms scientist ( for the second time ) and physicist.