See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE See also:

• WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-1863)

THACKERAY (1811-1863)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English novelist, only son of See also:

• RICHMOND
• RICHMOND, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• RICHMOND, LEGH (1772-1827)
• RICHMOND, SIR WILLIAM BLAKE (1842– )

Richmond and See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne See also:

• THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863)

Thackeray (whose See also:

• MAIDEN, or MAID

maiden name was See also:

• BECHER, JOHANN JOACHIM (1635-1682)

Becher), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta on the 18th of See also:

• JULY

July 1811 . Both his See also:

• FATHER

father and his grandfather (W . R . Thackeray) had been See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• CIVIL

civil servants . His See also:

• MOTHER

mother was only nineteen at the date of his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, was See also:

• LEFT

left a widow in 1816, and afterwards married See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

Major See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• CARMICHAEL, GERSHOM (c. 1672-1729)

Carmichael See also:

• SMYTH (or SMITH), JOHN (c. 1570-1612)
• SMYTH (or SMITH), WILLIAM (c. 1460-1514)
• SMYTH, CHARLES
• SMYTH, SIR WARINGTON WILKINSON (1817-1890)

Smyth . See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young Thackeray was brought See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England from See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India as a See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, and was sent to private See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools, first in See also:

• HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire and then at See also:

• CHISWICK

Chiswick . In 1822 he was transferred to See also:

• CHARTERHOUSE

Charterhouse, at that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time still on its See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient site near Smithfield . See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony See also:

• TROLLOPE, ANTHONY (181 1882)

Trollope, in his See also:

• BOOK

book on Thackeray in the " English Men of Letters " See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, quotes a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter written to him about Thackeray's school-days by See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George Stovin Venables . " He came to school young," Venables wrote, " a See also:

• PRETTY

pretty, See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle, and rather timid boy." This accords with the fact that all through Thackeray's writings the student may find traces of the sensitiveness which often belongs to the creative mind, and which, in the boy who does not understand its meaning and its possible See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, is See also:

• APT

apt to assume the See also:

• GUISE
• GUISE, HOUSE OF

guise of a shrinking disposition . To this very See also:

• MATTER

matter Venables tersely referred in a later passage of the letter quoted by Trollope: " When I knew him better, in later years, I thought I could recognize the sensitive nature which he had as a boy." Another See also:

• ILLUSTRATION

illustration of this See also:

• IDIOSYNCRASY (Gr. Ibwavyspavia, peculiar habit of body or temperament; 'lbws, one's own, and viryKpao , blending, tempering, from o-vyiepavvvoOat, to put together, compound, mix)

idiosyncrasy is found in the statement, which will be recognized as exact by all readers of Thackeray, that " his See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of retrospective feeling about his schooldays was very characteristic . In his earlier books he always spoke of the Charterhouse as Slaughter See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House and Smithfield . As he became famous and prosperous his memory softened, and Slaughter House was changed into See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

Grey Friars, where See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

Colonel Newceme ended his See also:

• LIFE

life." Even in the earlier references the bitterness which has often been so falsely read into Thackeray is not to be found .

In " Mr and Mrs See also:

• FRANK, JAKOB (1726-1791)

Frank See also:

• BERRY, CHARLES ALBERT (1852-1899)
• BERRY, CHARLES FERDINAND
• BERRY, JOHN, DUKE OF (1340-1416)
• BERRY, or BERRI

Berry " (Men's Wives) there is a description of a fight at Slaughter House following on an incident almost identical with that used in Vanity See also:

• FAIR

Fair for the fight between Dobbin and See also:

• CUFF

Cuff . In both cases the brutality of school life, as it then was, is very fully recognized and described, but not to the exclusion of the See also:

• CHIVALRY (O. Fr. chevalerie, from Late Lat. caballerius)

chivalry which may go alongside with it . In the first See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter of " Mr and Mrs, Frank Berry," Berry himself and old See also:

• HAWKINS, CAESAR HENRY (1798-1884)
• HAWKINS, or HAWKYNS, SIR JOHN (1532-1595)
• HAWKINS, or HAWKYNS, SIR RICHARD (c. 1562-1622)
• HAWKINS, SIR JOHN (1719-1789)

Hawkins both have a See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch of the heroic, and in this See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story the See also:

• BULLY (of uncertain origin, but possibly connected with a Teutonic word seen in many compounds, as the Low Ger. bullerjaan, meaning " noisy "; the word has also, with less probability, been derived from the Dutch beel, and Ger. Buhle, a lover)

bully whom Berry gallantly challenges is completely defeated, and one hears no more of him . In Vanity Fair Cuff the swaggerer is defeated as completely as is Berry's opponent, but regains his popularity by one well-timed stroke of magnanimity, and afterwards shows the truest kindness to his conqueror . Thackeray left See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

Charter-house in 1828 to join his mother and her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband at Larkbeare in See also:

• DEVONSHIRE (DEvoN)
• DEVONSHIRE, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Devonshire, near Ottery St See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary . Ottery St Mary is the" Clavering St Mary," as See also:

• EXETER
• EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

Exeter and See also:

• SIDMOUTH
• SIDMOUTH, HENRY ADDINGTON, 1ST VISCOUNT (1757–1844)

Sidmouth are respectively the " See also:

• CHATTERIS

Chatteris " and " Baymouth " of Pendennis . In See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1829 Thackeray went to Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAM (CAO), DIOGO (fl. 1480-1486)

Cam-See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge, and in that See also:

• YEAR

year contributed some engaging lines on " Timbuctoo," the subject for the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

Prize Poem (the prize for which was won in that year by See also:

• TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON

Tennyson), to a little See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper called The Snob, a See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title which Thackeray afterwards utilized in the famous Book of Snobs . The first See also:

• STANZA (Low Lat. stantia, Ital. stantia or stanza)

stanza has become tolerably well known, but is See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth quoting as an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early instance of the See also:

• DIRECT

direct comic force afterwards employed by the author in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse and See also:

• PROSE

prose burlesques: " In See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa—a See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of the See also:

• WORLD

world Men's skins are See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black; their See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair is crisp and curled; And somewhere there, unknown to public view, A mighty See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city lies, called Timbuctoo." One other passage at least in The Snob, in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a skit on a See also:

• PARAGRAPH

paragraph of fashionable intelligence, seems to See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear traces of Thackeray's handiwork . At See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• SPEDDING, JAMES (18o8–1881)

Spedding, Monckton Milnes (See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1ST BARON (1809—1885)

Houghton), See also:

• EDWARD

Edward See also:

• FITZGERALD
• FITZGERALD, EDWARD (1809–1883)
• FITZGERALD, LORD E
• FITZGERALD, LORD EDWARD (1763-1798)
• FITZGERALD, LORD THOMAS (loth earl of Kildare), (1513-1537)
• FITZGERALD, RAYMOND, or REDMOND (d. ca. 1182)

FitzGerald, W . H . See also:

• THOMPSON
• THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1907)
• THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)
• THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, BART
• THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894)
• THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
• THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

Thompson (afterwards See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

Master of Trinity), and others who made their See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark in later life, were among his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends . In 1830 he left Cambridge without taking a degree, and went to See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar and to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris .

His visit to Weimar See also:

• BORE

bore See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit in the keen sketches of life at a small See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court which appear in Fitz-Boodle's Confessions and in Vanity Fair . In G . H . See also:

• LEWES
• LEWES, CHARLES LEE (1740–1803)

Lewes's Life of See also:

• GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)

Goethe is a letter containing Thackeray's impressions of the German poet . On his return to England in 1831 he entered the See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Temple . He did not care to pursue the study of the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, but he found in his experience of the Temple the material for some See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital scenes in Pendennis . In 1832 he came of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, and inherited a sum which, according to Trollope, " seems to have amounted to about five See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred a year." The See also:

• MONEY

money was soon lost—some in an Indian See also:

• BANK

bank, some at See also:

• PLAY

play and some in two See also:

• NEWSPAPERS

newspapers, The See also:

• NATIONAL

National See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

Standard (with a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long sub-title) and The Constitutional . In Lovel the Widower these two papers are indicated under one name as The Museum, in connexion with which our friends Honeyman and Sherrick of The Newcomes are briefly brought in . Thackeray's adventures and losses at play were utilized in his See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• WORK

work on three occasions, in " A Caution to Travellers " (The Paris See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

Sketch-Book), in the first of the Deuceace narrations (The See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs of Mr C . J . Yellowplush), and in Pendennis, vol. ii. See also:

• CHAP

chap. v., in a story (wherein Deuceace reappears) told to See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Strong by " Colonel Altamont." As to Deuceace, See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

Theodore See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin has related how once in the playrooms at See also:

• SPA

Spa Thackeray called his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to a certain See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man and said presently, " That was the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original of my Deuceace." In 1834 or at the end of 1833 Thackeray established himself in Paris in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to study See also:

• ART

art seriously . He had, like See also:

• CLIVE, CAROLINE (1801-1873)
• CLIVE, CATHERINE [KITTY] (1711-1785)
• CLIVE, ROBERT CLIVE, BARON (1725-1774)

Clive in The Newcomes, shown See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent as a caricaturist from his early boyhood .

His See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift proved of See also:

• GREAT

great value to him in illustrating much of his own literary work in a See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion which, despite all incorrectness of draughtsmanship, conveyed vivid suggestions that could not have been so well given by anyone but himself . Perhaps his See also:

• PENCIL (Lat. penicillus, brush, literally little tail)

pencil was at its best technically in such fantastic work as is found constantly in the initial letters which he frequently used for chapters in his various kinds of work, and in those drawings made for the amusement of some child friends which were the origin of The See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

Rose and the See also:

• RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

Ring . In 1836' Thackeray married See also:

• ISABELLA (1451-15o4)
• ISABELLA, ISABEAU

Isabella, daughter of Colonel See also:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew Shawe . There were three daughters born of the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage, one dying in See also:

• INFANCY

infancy . The eldest daughter, Anne Isabella (b . 1837), married in 1877 Mr Richmond See also:

• RITCHIE, CHARLES THOMSON RITCHIE, 1ST BARON (1838-1906)
• RITCHIE, DAVID GEORGE (1853-1903)

Ritchie, of the India See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office, who in 1907 was created a K.C.B . She inherited literary talent from her father and wrote several charming See also:

• WORKS

works of fiction, notably See also:

• MISS

Miss See also:

• ANGEL

Angel (1875), and subsequently edited Thackeray's works and published some volumes of See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism and reminiscences . The younger daughter, Harriet Marian (b . 1840), married (Sir) See also:

• LESLIE
• LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722)
• LESLIE, CHARLES ROBERT (1794–1859)
• LESLIE, FRED [FREDERICK HOBSON] (1855–1892)
• LESLIE, SIR JOHN (1766-1832)
• LESLIE, THOMAS EDWARD CLIFFE (1827-1882)

Leslie See also:

• STEPHEN
• STEPHEN (1097?-1154)
• STEPHEN (ISTVAN) BATHORY (1533-1586)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES (1789-1859)
• STEPHEN, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES, BART
• STEPHEN, SIR LESLIE (1832-1904)

Stephen in 1867 and died in 1875 . Thackeray's own See also:

• FAMILY

family life was early broken, for Mrs Thackeray, to quote Trollope, " became See also:

• ILL

ill and her mind failed her," in 1840, and he " became as it were a widower to the end of his days "; Mrs Thackeray did not See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die till 1892 . In 1837 Thackeray came to See also:

• LONDON

London, worked at various kinds of journalism, and became a See also:

• REGULAR

regular contributor to See also:

• FRASER
• FRASER, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1819– )
• FRASER, JAMES (1818-1885)
• FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783--1856)
• FRASER, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

Fraser's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine . In this in 1841 appeared The See also:

• HISTORY

History of Mr See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty See also:

• DIAMOND

Diamond, a work filled with instances of the wit, See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour, See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire, pathos, which found a more ordered if not a fresher expression in his later and longer works .

For freshness, indeed, and for a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception which enables the author to perform among other feats that of keeping up throughout the story the curious simplicity of its supposed narrator's See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, The Great Hoggarty Diamond can scarcely be surpassed . The characters, from See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

• DRUM (early forms drome or dromme, a word common to many Teut. languages, cf. Dan. tromme, Ger. Trommel: the word is ultimately the same as " trumpet," and is probably onomatopoeic in origin; it appears late in Eng. about the middle of the 16th century)

Drum, Lady Fanny Rakes, Lady Jane and See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund See also:

• PRESTON
• PRESTON, JOHN (1587-1628)

Preston, to See also:

• BROUGH, ROBERT (1872-1905)

Brough, Mrs and Miss Brough, Mrs Roundhand, Gus See also:

• HOSKINS, JOHN (d. 1664)

Hoskins, and, by no means least, Samuel Titmarsh's aunt, Mrs Hoggarty, with her See also:

• STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store of " Rosolio," are full of life; the book is crammed with honest fun; and for pure pathos, the See also:

• DEATH

death of the child, and the See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting of the husband and wife over the empty See also:

• CRADLE (of uncertain etymology, possibly connected with " crate " and " creel," i.e. basket; the derivation from a Celtic word, with a sense of rocking, is scouted by the New English Dictionary)

cradle, stands, if not alone in its own See also:

• LINE

line, at least in the See also:

• COMPANY

company of very few such scenes in English fiction . The Great Hoggarty Diamond, oddly enough, met with the See also:

• FATE

fate that afterwards befell one of See also:

• LEVER (through O. Fr. leveour, levere, mod. levier, from Lat. levare, to lift, raise)
• LEVER, CHARLES JAMES (1806-1872)

Lever's best stories which appeared in a periodical See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week by week—it had to be cut See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short at the bidding of the editor . In 1840 came out The Paris Sketch-Book, much of which had been written and published at an earlier date . The book contains among other things some curious divagations in criticism, along with some really fine See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical work, and a very powerful sketch called " A Gambler's Death." In 1838 Thackeray had begun, in Fraser, The Yellow See also:

• PLUSH (Fr. peluche)

plush Papers, with their See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange touches of humour, satire, tragedy (in one See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene, the closing one of the history of Mr Deuceace), and their sublimation of fantastic See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad spelling (M`Arony for See also:

• MACARONI (from dialectic Ital. maccare, to bruise or crush)

macaroni is one of the typical touches of this) ; and this was followed by See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine, a strong story, and too disagreeable perhaps for its purpose, founded closely on the actual career of a criminal named Catherine See also:

• HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

Hayes, and intended to counteract the then growing practice of making ruffians and harlots prominent characters in fiction . Now, when Pendennis was coming out in serial form (1850), Miss Catherine Hayes, a See also:

• SINGER, SIMEON (1846-1906)

singer of Irish birth and a famous prima donna (See also:

• SIMS, GEORGE ROBERT (1847– )

Sims See also:

• REEVES, JOHN SIMS (1818-1900)

Reeves described her as " the sweetest See also:

• LUCIA (or LucY), ST

Lucia [di Lammermoor] he had ever sung with ") was much before the public . A reflective passage in a number of Pendennis referred indignantly and scornfully to Catherine Hayes, the criminal of old time, coupling her name with that of a then recently notorious murderer . It would appear that Thackeray had for the moment, oddly enough, omitted to think of Miss Catherine Hayes, the justly famed See also:

• SOPRANO (a variant of Ital. sovrano, supreme, sovereign, Late Lat. superanus, from super, above)

soprano, while certain Irish folk were obviously ignorant or oblivious of the history of Catherine I-Iayes the murderess . Anyhow, there was a great outcry in the Irish See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press, and Thackeray was beset by private letters of indignation from enthusiastic compatriots of the prima donna . In deference to susceptibilities innocently outraged Thackeray afterwards suppressed the passage which had given offence . The thing is worth mention if only because it explains the initial letter See also:

• DRAWN

drawn by Thackeray for chap. xv., vol. ii., of Pendennis . The See also:

• DRAWING

drawing is in itself highly comic, but must seem quite meaning-less without the See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key .

There soon followed Fitz-Boodle's Confessions and Professions, including the series Men's Wives, already mentioned; and slightly before these, the Shabby Genteel Story, a work interrupted by Thackeray's domestic affliction and afterwards re-published as an introduction to The Adventures of See also:

• PHILIP
• PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
• PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
• PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
• PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)

Philip, which took up the course of the original story many years after the supposed date of its See also:

• CATASTROPHE (Gr. Karaurpoch, from KaraQrp4ecv, to over-turn)

catastrophe . In 1843 also came out the Irish Sketch-Book, and in 1844 appeared the See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey From Cornhill to See also:

• GRAND

Grand See also:

• CAIRO
• CAIRO (Arabic Misr-al-Kahira, or simply Misr)

Cairo, in which was included the excellent poem of " The See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White See also:

• SQUALL

Squall." In 1844 there began in Fraser the Memoirs of See also:

• BARRY
• BARRY, ELIZABETH (1658—1713)
• BARRY, JAMES (1741—1806)
• BARRY, SIR CHARLES (1795-1860)
• BARRY, SIR REDMOND (1813-188o)
• BARRY, SPRANGER (1719-1777)

Barry Lyndon, called in the magazine " The See also:

• LUCK

Luck of Barry Lyndon, a See also:

• ROMANCE

Romance of the Last See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century." " Barry Lyndon " has, with a very great difference in treatment, some resemblance to See also:

• SMOLLETT, TOBIAS GEORGE (1721-1771)

Smollett's " See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand, See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count See also:

• FATHOM

Fathom "—the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero, that is to say, is or becomes a most intolerable See also:

• SCOUNDREL

scoundrel, who is magnificently unconscious of his own iniquity . The form and pressure of the time depicted are caught with striking verisimilitude, and in the boyish career of Barry Lyndon there are fine touches of a See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild chivalry, simplicity, generosity, which mingle naturally with those worse qualities that, under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of abominable training, afterwards corrupt his whole mind and career . The man is so infatuated with and so See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind to his own roguery, he has so much dash and daring, and is on occasions so infamously treated, that it is not easy to look upon him as an entirely detestable villain until, towards the end of his course, he be-comes wholly lost in brutish debauchery and See also:

• CRUELTY (through the O. Fr. crualte, mod. cruaute, from the Lat. crudelitas)

cruelty . His latter career is founded on that of See also:

• ANDREW (Gr. 'AvBp4as, manly)
• ANDREW, JOHN ALBION (1818-1867)

Andrew See also:

• ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
• ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
• ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
• ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
• ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
• ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
• ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
• ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
• ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)

Robinson Stoney Bowes, who married the widow of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John, 9th See also:

• EARL

earl of Strathmore . There is also no doubt a touch of Casanova in Barry Lyndon's character . Thackeray became a contributor to See also:

• PUNCH

Punch within the first year of its existence . John See also:

• LEECH
• LEECH, JOHN (1817-1864)

Leech, who was one of the earliest contributors, had been at Charterhouse with Thackeray and the two men were friends through life . Thackeray's first series contributed to Punch did not attain or indeed deserve See also:

• SIGNAL

signal success . He made his first See also:

• HIT

hit with Jeames's See also:

• DIARY

Diary, begun in See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1845, and may be said to have established his reputation by the Snob Papers (1846), now better known as The Book of Snobs . These, besides greatly improving Thackeray's position, provoked much discussion of various kinds . Thackeray himself was naturally accused of being a snob .

To this See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge he had partly given an anticipatory See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer (in the third chapter) in the statement that " it is impossible, in our See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of society, not to be sometimes a Snob," and in giving the name of " Mr Snob " to the supposed historian of snobs throughout the series . Thackeray's connexion with Punch came practically to an end in 1851 . The severance was due partly to See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences in See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion . His See also:

• PERSONAL

personal relations with the See also:

• STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff of Punch always remained cordial . See also:

• SPECIAL

Special mention may be made of one other contribution of his to the paper, " Punch's Prize Novelists," containing some brilliant parodies of Edward See also:

• LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON, BULWERLYTTON, 1ST BARON (1803-1873)
• LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT

Lytton Bulwer, Lever, See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

Benjamin Disraeli (in " Codlingsby," perhaps the most perfect of the series), and others . Among See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor but admirable works of the same See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period are found A See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

Legend of the See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine (a See also:

• BURLESQUE (Ital. burlesco, from burla, a joke, fun, playful trick)

burlesque of the great See also:

• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE [" DUMAS FILS"] (1824-1895)
• DUMAS, GUILLAUME MATHIEU, COUNT (1753-1837)
• DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE (1800-1884)

Dumas's Othon l'See also:

• ARCHER, WILLIAM (1856— )

Archer), brought out in George See also:

• CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE (1792–1878)

Cruikshank's Table Book, edited by See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

Gilbert See also:

• ABBOTT
• ABBOTT, EMMA (1849-1891)
• ABBOTT, JACOB (1803-1879)
• ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT (1805-1877)
• ABBOTT, LYMAN (1835- )

Abbott A Beckett, See also:

• COX, DAVID (1783-1859)
• COX, JACOB DOLSON (1828-1900)
• COX, KENYON (1856– )
• COX, RICHARD (I3oo ?–1581)
• COX, SAMUEL (1826–1893)
• COX, SAMUEL HANSON (1793-1880)
• COX, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (1827-1902)

Cox's Diary (on which has been founded a well-known Dutch See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, See also:

• JANUS

Janus Tulp), and The Fatal Boots . This is the most fitting moment for naming also Rebecca and Rowena, which towers, not only over Thackeray's other burlesques, excellent as they are, but over every other burlesque of the See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind ever written . Its See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste, its wit, its pathos, its humour, are unn;a,t.chable; and it contains some of the best songs of a particular kind ever written—songs rivalled only by See also:

• PEACOCK (Lat. Pavo, O. Eng. Pawe, Du. pauuw, Ger. Pfau, Fr. Paon)
• PEACOCK, GEORGE (1791–1858)
• PEACOCK, SIR BARNES (1810-189o)
• PEACOCK, THOMAS LOVE (1785-1866)

Peacock's best of the same sort . In 1846 was published, by Messrs Bradbury and See also:

• EVANS, CHRISTMAS (1766-1838)
• EVANS, EVAN HERBER (1836-1896)
• EVANS, OLIVER (1755–1819)
• EVANS, SIR GEORGE DE LACY (1787–1870)
• EVANS, SIR JOHN (1823-1908)

Evans, the first of twenty-four See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers of Vanity Fair, the work which first placed Thackeray in his proper position before the public as a novelist and writer of the first See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank . It was completed in 1848, when Thackeray was See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-seven years old; and in the same year See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham See also:

• HAYWARD, ABRAHAM (1801-1884)
• HAYWARD, SIR JOHN (c. 1560-1627)

Hayward paid a See also:

• TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute to the author's See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers in the See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review . It is probable that on Vanity Fair has been largely based the foolish cry, now heard less and less frequently, about Thackeray's cynicism, a cry which he himself, with his' keen knowledge of men, foresaw and provided against, amply enough as one might have thought, at the end of the eighth chapter, in a passage which is perhaps the best commentary ever written on the author's method . He has explained how he wishes to describe men and See also:

• WOMEN

women as they actually are, See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good, bad and indifferent, and to claim a See also:

• PRIVILEGE

privilege .

"Occasionally to step down from the See also:

• PLATFORM (Fr. plateforme, i.e. ground plan)

platform, and talk about them; if they are good and kindly, to love and shake them by the See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand; if they are See also:

• SILLY

silly, to laugh at them confidentially in the reader's See also:

• SLEEVE (O. Eng. slieve, slyf, a word allied to " slip," cf. Dutch sloof, apron)

sleeve; if they are wicked and heartless, to abuse them in the strongest terms politeness admits of . Otherwise you might See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy it was I who was sneering at the practice of devotion, which 718 Miss See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

Sharp finds so ridiculous; that it was ! who laughed goodhurnouredly at the railing old See also:

• SILENUS

Silenus of a See also:

• BARONET

baronet—whereas the See also:

• LAUGHTER

laughter comes from one who has no reverence except for prosperity, and no See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye for anything beyond success . Such See also:

• PEOPLE

people there are living and flourishing in the world—Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main . Some there are, and very successful too, See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere quacks and See also:

• FOOLS, FEAST OF (Lat. festum stultorum, fatuorum, follorum, Fr. fete des fous)

fools; and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that laughter was made." As to another See also:

• ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law)

accusation which was brought against the book when it first came out, that the See also:

• COLOURS, MILITARY

colours were laid on too thick, in the sense that the villains were too villainous, the good people too goody-goody, the best and completest answer to that can be found by anyone who chooses to read the work with care . See also:

• OSBORNE

Osborne is, and is meant to be, a poor enough creature, but he is an eminently human being, and one whose poorness of character is See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed as he allows bad influences to tell upon his vanity and folly . The good in him is fully recognized, and comes out in the beautiful passage describing his farewell to Amelia on the See also:

• EVE

eve of See also:

• WATERLOO

Waterloo, in which passage may be also found a sufficient enough answer to the statement that Amelia is absolutely insipid and uninteresting . So with the See also:

• COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion picture of Rawdon Crawley's farewell to Becky Sharp: who that reads it can resist sympathy, in spite of Rawdon's vices and shady shifts for a living, with his See also:

• SIMPLE

simple bravery and devotion to his wife ? As for Becky, a character that has since been imitated a See also:

• HOST

host of times, there is certainly not much to be said in her See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence . We know of her, to be sure, that she thought she would have found it easy to be good if she had been See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, J