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Há 3 dias · Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, by Richard Brookhiser (Yale, 276 pp., $30) In 1853, British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray toured the U.S. Capitol with Senator Charles Sumner. Thackeray, who illustrated his own novels with sketches, was impressed by the Rotunda and its four wall-size paintings of ...
Há 2 dias · Between 1846 and 1853and 1853 No. 16 was the home of William Makepeace Thackeray (one of Merriman's patients), whose residence here is marked by a Blue — or rather brown —Plaque above the front door put up in 1905. Thackeray described the house (then numbered 13 Young Street) in a letter to his mother in July 1846.
Há 4 dias · Thackeray published extensively in Fraser’s Magazine until 1842, when he began contributing to Punch, owned by *Bradbury & Evans. ‘The Snobs of England’ (...
Há 5 dias · Moving from a comprehensive introduction to Smile's Self-Help and the genre that his text helped to establish, Richardson considers how authors such as Harriet Martineau, Dinah Craik, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope addressed ambivalence concerning the quality of ambition, before going on to analyze how certain aspects of the self-help discourse resonated with the literature ...
Há 4 dias · John Turner and attended by his wife's great nephew William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) from 1818. (fn. 73) It was probably the original of Miss Pinkerton's academy in Vanity Fair , which Thackeray placed in Chiswick Mall, although his illustration, (fn. 74) showing massive gate piers and another house opposite, gave some support ...
Há 3 dias · William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) - English novelist and satirist, best known for his novel Vanity Fair, which offers a scathing critique of early 19th-century British society. His works are celebrated for their wit, realism, and incisive social commentary.
Há 21 horas · Thackeray seemed to grasp the scope of Trumbull’s achievement. Others depicted single events or did portraits of leading figures—Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington, for example—and a non-American, Emanuel Leutze, gave us Washington Crossing the Delaware , but only Trumbull created a suite portraying the Revolution as an unfolding narrative.
