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William M. Thackeray
(1811-1863)
During the Victorian era, Thackeray was
ranked second only to Charles Dickens,
but he is now much less widely read and is
almost only known for his satirical work,
Vanity Fair.
1. Life and Career
He was born at Calcutta, the son of an East
India Company official.
His father died when he was four years old,
and his mother remarried to an officer of the
British military in India.
At the age of six, Thackeray was sent to be
educated in England.
He entered Cambridge in 1829 but left it
without taking his degree.
In 1832, he inherited a sum of 500 pound a
year, a handsome sum then, but he soon lost
the patrimony—some in investing in an Indian
bank which broke, some at gambling tables
and some in two futile newspaper enterprises.
In 1836, he married Isabella Shawe, an Irish
girl, who, however, became insane after the
birth of their third child. A young man with a
ruined fortune and a tragic marriage,
Thackeray was forced to earn his life with his
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2. Some features of his works
① Criticizes the social moral that makes up the
society.
② Thackeray’s criticism embraces people of all
social strata; his social-climbers and snobs and
money-grabbers can be found in any class.
③ Thackeray always speaks in an ironical,
sarcastic and cynical tone of an on-looker.
④ Thackeray proves a conscious artist. His works
are known for their fine language, careful
overall planning, mastery of detail, vast scope
of view and a faithfulness to the history.
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