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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick.
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culture · English novelist and illustrator (1811–1863) · writer · novelist · prose writer · also William Makepeace Thackeray, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, George Fitz-Boodle, Thackeray
Born 18 July 1811 · Died 24 December 1863 · Q167768
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2022· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: William Makepeace Thackeray
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2009· 1 entry
With Adam Buxton playing Charles Yellowplush
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1887· 1 entry
The Royal Society of Arts unveiled a blue plaque to commemorate Thackeray at the house at 2 Palace Green, London, that had been built for him in the 1860s
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1863· 4 entries
Died 1863-12-24.
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“If a writer can give you a sweet soothing, harmless sleep, has he not done you a kindness? So is the author who excites and interests you worthy of your thanks and benedictions. (ang.)”
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“A good laugh is sunshine in a house. (ang.)”
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“Często się zdarza, że ludzie najzawzięciej nienawidzą tych, którym najwięcej wyrządzili krzywdy.”
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1861· 1 entry
As The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life
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1860· 1 entry
Thackeray became editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine, but he was never comfortable in the role, preferring to contribute to the magazine as the writer of a column called "Roundabout Papers"
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1857· 1 entry
And edited the Cornhill Magazine in 1860
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1830· 1 entry
But some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals, The Snob and The Gownsman
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1820· 1 entry
After having sent William off to school there more than three years earlier
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1815· 1 entry
Which caused Anne to send her son to England that same year, while she remained in India
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1812· 1 entry
When Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth to dinner
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1811· 1 entry
Born 1811-07-18.
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1807· 1 entry
In Bath, had died, while he was told that Anne was no longer interested in him
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1804· 1 entry
With Charlotte Sophia Rudd, his possibly Eurasian mistress, and both mother and daughter were named in his will
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