Thackeray met by chance in the street and shook hands. This was healed only a few months prior to Thackeray's death, when Dickens and The two men often had minor literary disagreementsĪnd still remained friends, until a breach that lasted years caused by Thackeray's publicly letting slip information about Dickens' mistress. Thackeray enjoyed literary relationships with several authors and editors, including Dickens. With his growing success, criticsīegan to compare him to authors such as Charles Dickens. It is believed that his wife's illness began Thackeray's lifelong study of the situation of women in Victorian England, and hisĬreating the memorable and believable female characters that appear in his masterpieces, Vanity Fair (1847), The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. In the meantime, Thackeray still needed to write to support his wife and two surviving daughters. Thackeray began searching for a cure, taking his wife to various doctors and health spas, all to no avail. Of their third child, Isabella became almost completely withdrawn.
Thus he missed the early signs of his wife's growing illness and depression. Thackeray's travel writing frequently took him away from home, and when at home he often went to the quiet of men's clubs to work. He published literary and art criticism, general articles, essays, travel books, and fiction, usually under a comic pseudonym. Determined to support his family, Thackeray began writing in earnest. Then in Paris he met and married Isabella Shawe in 1836. He led the dissipated lifestyle of a young gentleman even after losing much of his inheritance.īut he began to supplement his income by contributing to newspapers, often about his travels. Not an outstanding student, he survived only two years of an inaccessible mentor and a preference for wine partiesĭeciding his best route to an education was through extensive reading and educational travel, Thackeray set out for continental Europe. They also led him to find escape by reading the popularįiction of the day, including Sir Walter Scott and Pierce Egan. He attended several boarding schools, which experiences (including exceedingly dry lessons and canings) later provided material for Thackeray's writing. Upon his father's death Thackeray went to England to liveĪt age five. William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, in 1811, to parents both of Anglo-Indian descent.
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