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1 giorno fa · Title: Les mémoires d'un valet de piedAuthor: William Makepeace Thackeray
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5 giorni fa · 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.
1 giorno fa · Even before the grand new building was opened in 1838, William IV, in one of his last utterances (he died in 1837), described it as “a nasty, little hole” while the author William Makepeace Thackeray called it “a little gin shop of a building.” For the first 30 years of its existence, the National Gallery was run by its trustees.
3 giorni fa · Cultural luminaries like Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray; Benjamin Disraeli, who attended many dinners at Apsley House as a rising star in Parliament, described it as "the seat of royalty in this country, where Princes and Sovereigns are entertained."
2 giorni fa · Sheldon Goldfarb is the author of The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC (Heritage House, 2017), reviewed by Herbert Rosengarten.He has been the archivist for the UBC student society (the AMS) for more than twenty years and has also written a murder mystery and two academic books on the Victorian author William Makepeace Thackeray.
5 giorni fa · Anche questa si basa su un romanzo storico del 1848 “La fiera delle vanità”, appunto, di William Makepeace Thackeray. Al centro della prima stagione seguiamo la storia di Becky Sharp durante il suo cammino per lasciarsi alle spalle la povertà e scalare l’alta società inglese, fino alla corte di Giorgio IV.
3 giorni fa · Six decades later, the major and most often studied and discussed Victorian writers are novelists, many of them not men: the Brontës, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell are right up there along with Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, and, eventually, I guess, Thomas Hardy.
