William Thackeray 威廉姆.萨克雷.ppt

William Makepeace Thackeray(1811—1863) * PPT课件 born in Calcutta on July 18, 1811 parents, of Anglo-Indian descent; father, appointed to a position in the Indian Civil Service in 1817, after his father’s death, sent home to England to be educated (a succession of preparatory schools; then public school at the Charterhouse) in 1829, entered Trinity College, Cambridge; formed friendship with Tennyson, Edward Fitzgerald William Brookfield; left without a degree Thackeray’ Life (p.187-192) * PPT课件 with comfortable income from his father’s estate, could afford to take an active part in the soc