He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School. Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stopover at St. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet and John Harman Becher and was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company. Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School. Vanity Fair is the story of one young womans rise to the top of Englands shallow upper-class society and her swift fall. He’s a middle of the pack novelist, better than Trollope, not as good as Dickens, whose best work still has significant problems. William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stopover at St. Before 1847, William Makepeace Thackeray was a guy mostly known for writing short satirical articles for the funny magazine Punch.After 1848, he became the superstar author of the hilariously mean Vanity Fair, a long satirical novel that made fun of the aristocracy and the middle classes: their greed, corruption, and ahem vanity. William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is (I think) one of the best works of literature in the English language.

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