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Marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume set presents a collection of materials relating to the novelist and to his gifted family.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...was for the first time in my life that I saw the thing, which was as correct as one of your balls or ours for all I could see--& the women, 0 the beautiful dresses and daring gaiety! Corbin had a dinner the same day of heavy American and British company, from w I went to the young men's party. And I have given some restaurateur-feasts myself w1? have been tolerably pleasant having a notion to make Punch pay for them by a series of Gastronomic articles--and 1 have been racketting about as usual: getting C 100 n now and then a day to myself away from fashionable gossip from family gossip qui n'est guere moins supportable: and I have had some capital days and walks with my girls the sight of whose happiness makes me happy. Shall I write you a pleasanter letter soon? next week? tomorrow? This is not one--only to see that I am Yours sincerely always w. M. T. This is a postscript written in a hurry--to pray your good father not to mind the awful price of this letter wl? it is too late to pay it w1? it is written in the office of a newspaper correspondent with 6 people talking round about. I have just come out of the height of good society, Lady Cowley, Lady Sandwich, Lady Waldegrave, Lord Bath and here's quite another set, and a pleasanter perhaps--C. C. Clifford is related to the Duke of Devonshire--with the bar sinister, a very worthy good young man. I dont know Lefevre--the Speaker's son I suppose--I did n't see Hatty. I only care for Hatty " on fire" and a few, very few more.... I wish I was where this letter is a going. It wasn't worth while to keep the letter open for these fadaises, was it? What compliments you have got to paying me of late!--I went and got your lasl; letter and read it over before I came out. Hence all...
First published in 1994, these two volumes are intended as a supplement to the four-volume edition edited by Gordon N. Ray in 1945-46. In writing to his broad range of correspondents, Thackeray produced a varied body of letters that will help readers to better understand his nineteenth-century society as well as his professional and private life — especially his relationships with women. These volumes contain 1713 letters: 1464 to and from Thackeray that were not included in the earlier volumes, and 249 with texts that have been edited from newly available manuscripts, and that thereby replace texts that were printed in Ray from incomplete sources.
A rich and evocative portrait of one of the greatest authors of Victorian England Who was William Makepeace Thackeray? Was he the wealthy dilettante who came to London in the 1830s and squandered his fortune on newspapers? Was he the impoverished freelance author of the 1840s who scrapped for every penny he could get? Or was he the great writer who published Vanity Fair in 1847, skewering Victorian society and ensuring his literary legacy? Throughout the many phases of his life, Thackeray remained an enigma. He was friendly but standoffish, generous yet miserly, confident and utterly terrified of failure. A century and a half after Thackeray’s death, D. J. Taylor has produced a biography that tackles the complexities of these contradictions and restores Thackeray to his place in the literary pantheon. His fortune lost by the time he was thirty, his personal life in constant torment, Thackeray’s story is as dramatic as that of any of his characters. In Thackeray, the man can finally be seen in full.
An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863). This collection of essays, however, represents the first sustained critical examination of Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its varied manifestations. Encompassing the full chronological span of the author's career and a wide range of literary forms and genres in which he worked, Thackeray in Time repositions Thackeray's temporal and historical self-consciousness in relation to the broader socio-cultural contexts of Victorian modernity. The first part of the collection focusses on some of the characteristic temporal modes of professional authorship and print culture in the mid-nineteenth century, including periodical journalism and the Christmas book market. Secondly, the volume offers fresh approaches to Thackeray's acknowledged status as a major exponent of historical fiction, reconsidering questions of historiography and the representation of place in such novels as Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond. The final part of the collection develops the central Thackerayan theme of memory within four very different but complementary contexts. Thackeray's absorption by memories of childhood in later life leads on to his own subsequent memorialisation by familial descendants and to the potential of digital technology for preserving and enhancing Thackeray's print archive in the future, and finally to the critical legacy perpetuated by generations of literary scholars since his death.
Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biographical material shed light on the processes at work in the establishment of a public image and a critical reputation.