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Affectionate and needy, Thackeray had nurtured Anny's talents, and used her as his amanuensis.
Thackeray evidently thought that this was too good a subplot to be used only once in English fiction.
In his early work, Thackeray burlesqued popular authors and tried on different guises.
Wilson crafts this social satire in the mould of Thackeray or Trollope, crisscrossing class barriers with fluid facility.
The central character, as Thackeray candidly admitted, is based closely on himself.
The chief has puffed eyes and dark under-eye circles, thanks to ceaseless barking by stray canines in the vicinity of the Thackeray residence.
Will two centuries of sifting really leave La Dolce Vita, Raging Bull, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Sweeney Todd on the same scrapheap as the works of Thackeray?
Thackeray said the BJP had touched the pinnacle of success under Vajpayee's leadership and lamented that some ambitious leaders in the party were eyeing his place.
In passages such as these, his most distinctive, Thackeray comes perilously near abnegating his responsibility as a human being, let alone as a moralist or satirist.
The eulogy ends before it begins and Thackeray is barely alluded to again, let alone revered.
Do some substitutions in those sentences along the lines Thackeray wanted to do with Mein Kampf.
Virginia Woolf used it, citing Thackeray, in her 1929 essay A Room of One's Own.
His work would be a major influence on later novelists such as Thackeray and Dickens.
Later periods like the Victorian Era saw a further flourishing of British writing, including Charles Dickens and William Thackeray.
In 1966, Thackeray formed Shiv Sena to strongly support the position of Maharashtrians in Mumbai.
Charlotte especially admired Thackeray, whose portrait, given to her by Smith, still hangs in the dining room at Haworth parsonage.
The girls had been arrested for their Facebook posts, which questioned the need for a shutdown in Mumbai for the funeral of former Shive Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
In 1966, Thackeray formed the Shiv Sena party to advocate more strongly the place of Maharashtrians in Mumbai's political and professional landscape.
He worked with leading literary figures including William Thackeray.
Traces of cocaine and myristic acid, derived from cannabis, were found on the 24 clay pipes tested by Dr Francis Thackeray of the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Here Thackeray has borrowed not only Steele's voice, but his very trick of speech.
He adds that Thackeray expressed a wish, which he allowed Cruikshank to sterilise, to print the ballad with illustrations.
Thackeray was a Charterhouse boy and was familiar with the surroundings there.
Again, Thackeray contributed the notes and critical apparatus to Cruikshank's version.
And who ever read Thackeray without feeling the greatest longing to see the world which he decries?
And the urbane ease and flowing rhythms of Thackeray are preferable to the baphometic verbal baptisms of Carlyle the Boanerges.
Don't you get up every morning meaning to prove you're equal to Balzac or Thackeray?
Thackeray's lecture on Swift, which is full of animosity and miscomprehension, is a well-written revelation of Thackeray.
Thackeray soon rushes away from his criticisms on snobbism to other matters.
Who would project a serial novel, after Thackeray and Dickens had each fallen in midcourse?
But the last part was the kind of thing that poor old Thackeray might have done.
There is certainly a property in Thackeray that somehow flatters the reader into the belief that he is better than other people.
Jan Thackeray, fourth baron, boulevardier, lover of many women, was not unaffected.
I know when Thackeray wrote 'Vanity Fair' as well as you do.
George Eliot or Thackeray could have described the weakness of pip.
You open a book and try to read, but you find Shakespeare trite and commonplace, Dickens is dull and prosy, Thackeray a bore, and Carlyle too sentimental.
In the latest, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has attacked the Congress and warned it against trying to remove the makeshift memorial at the ground.
The Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle, within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now matriculating at the universities.
No doubt I should have been a coxcomb of some kind, if not that kind, and I shall not be very strenuous in censuring Thackeray for his effect upon me in this way.
The writer is one, Thackeray, a half-monstrous Cornish giant, kind of painter, Cambridge man, and Paris newspaper correspondent, who is now writing for his life in London.
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