• Long remembered as a social satirist par excellence, William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) wrote more in the manner of Henry...
  • William Thackeray was born on 18th July 1811 in Calcutta in India. His father Richmond Thackeray was a high rank secretary to the board of revenue in the British...
  • The life and times of William Makepeace Thackeray who was a prolific Victorian novelist who is perhaps best know for his work “The Virginians”.
  • William Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India. His father, Richmond Thackeray, was a secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company.
  • There is a fine miniature portrait of Anne Becher Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray, aged about two, done in Madras by George Chinnery c. 1813.
  • "Thackeray, William Makepeace," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910).
  • Early Work. William Makepeace Thackeray was born on July 18, 1811, to Richmond Thackeray and Anne Becher in Calcutta, British India.
  • William Makepeace Thackeray was a prominent 19th-century British author, best known for his satirical novels and keen social observations.
  • This Civil War Harper's Weekly features an obituary and biography of William Thackeray.
  • Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his own books. Anne Becher and William Makepeace Thackeray by...