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Hace 1 día · In 1860 rumours circulated of a rivalry between Charles Dickens and William Thackeray due to the founding of Temple Bar by the former’s colleague, George Augustus Sala, just one year after the latter became the face of George Smith’s new literary monthly The Cornhill Magazine. 80 With nautical inflection, the Illustrated London News dismissed these ‘stupid notions’, asking rhetorically ...
Hace 4 días · — W. M. Thackeray, On Lett's Diary (1869); Baskervill & Sewell, An English Grammar. [45] The earliest known explicit recommendation by a grammarian to use the generic he rather than they in formal English is Ann Fisher 's mid-18th century A New Grammar assertion that "The Masculine Person answers to the general Name , which comprehends both Male and Female ; as, any Person who knows what he ...
Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 2 días · The gentlemen have voted, and it's official. Only 193 years since it's opening, women can now apply for membership at the Garrick Club. Founded in 1831, under the patronage of King William IV's brother, the club has played host. to some of the country's greatest creative male minds, including Anthony Trollope, J.M. Barrie, and Henry Irving.
Hace 4 días · "La fiera delle vanità - un romanzo senza eroe" è una delle opere più famose dell'Ottocento inglese di William M. Thackeray, da alcuni critici è considerato uno degli autori tra i più talentuosi del suo secolo, al pari di Dickens.
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Hace 2 días · His delightful new book, The Upstairs Delicatessen, bears the even more delightful subtitle “On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating, & Eating While Reading.”. Which should leave you with few questions as to what the breezy, highly entertaining volume is about. From an early age, Garner was inclined to find his greatest joy in mashing up ...
Hace 5 días · In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars, And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars, Away from the world, and its toils and its cares, I've a snug little kingdom up four pair of stairs.
