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William Makepeace Thackeray 制作人：张书敬 陈改英 William Makepeace Thackeray Family life and background William Makepeace Thackeray was born in 1811, in Caleutta, India, in the family of an English official. Thackerays father, Richmond, was born at South Mimms and went to India in 1798 at the age of sixteen to assume his duties as writer (secretary) . William Makepeace Thackeray Anne Becher, born 1792, was one of the reigning beauties of the day, a daughter of John Harmon Bech. Her familys deception was unexpectedly revealed in 1812, when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited to dinner the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth. Reputation and legacy During the Victorian era, Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair. In Thackerays own day, some commentators, such as Anthony Trollope, ranked his History of Henry Esmond as his greatest work. Works Timbuctoo Yellowplush Vanity Fair Pendennis Newcomes The History of Henry Esmond Biography William Makepeace Thackeray travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Goethe. In the early 1840s, Thackeray had some success with two travel books, The Paris Sketch Book and The Irish Sketch Book. Biography He remained at the top of the tree, as he put it, for the remaining decade and a half of his life, producing several large novels. Thackeray also gave lectures in London on the English humourists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four Hanoverian monarchs. * William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray Thackeray portrayed by Eyre Crowe, 1845 Titleto Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions. Thackeray portrayed by Eyre Crowe, 1845 *