William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811, was sent back to England at the age of five, lost his inheritance to gambling and bank failures, and earned his living as a draughtsman and journalist, notably at Punch. His wife sank into madness after the birth of their third daughter; he raised the two surviving girls with the help of his mother and had his wife cared for all her life. He was regarded by critics as the equal of Dickens, and died suddenly in London in 1863, at the age of fifty-two.

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• NovelVanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray · 1848LiteraturePublic domain