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Vanity Fair first hit Victorian London in 1847. Its publication would secure for its author, William Makepeace Thackeray, his place in English literary history. More immediately -- and more importantly, to Thackeray -- it established him as a serious challenge in the world of serialized fiction to his popular contemporary Charles Dickens. Until that time, life had not treated the thirty-six-year-old Thackeray kindly; for by then he had survived a difficult Anglo-Indian childhood dominated by the figure of his mother, the loss of his personal fortune in his early twenties, ten arduous years of hack work as a Fleet Street journalist, and a disastrous marriage to the beautiful Isabelle Shaw, who went irreversibly mad and left him to parent alone and in conditions near penury two small daughters. <p>Success, however, did not end Thackeray's troubles, as this definitive new biography by D. J. Taylor poignantly shows. Drawing on a variety of unpublished and little-known sources, and with a novelist's feel for the intricacies of character and relationships, Taylor explores Thackeray's anguished platonic love affair with the wife of one of his oldest friends, his bitter quarrels with more

Author

David John Taylor

Publisher

Carroll & Graf Publishers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786709106

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.3 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14