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When Dickens's fertility failed , he abandoned the Christmas Books ; and Thackeray took them over . “ There's no denying the matter or blinking it , " wrote Thackeray ; " now I am become a sort of great man in my way - all but at the ...
When Dickens's fertility failed , he abandoned the Christmas Books ; and Thackeray took them over . “ There's no denying the matter or blinking it , " wrote Thackeray ; " now I am become a sort of great man in my way - all but at the ...
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Mr J. Y. T. Greig , who has written Thackeray : a Reconsideration , when momentarily gravelled in what I cannot help thinking a rather glib and censorious example of this modern style of writing biography , says of Esmond : When it ...
Mr J. Y. T. Greig , who has written Thackeray : a Reconsideration , when momentarily gravelled in what I cannot help thinking a rather glib and censorious example of this modern style of writing biography , says of Esmond : When it ...
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the morals of the time felt a duty to her children and a certainty that if she and Thackeray eloped together both would be ostracized . But all men are influenced by their mothers . If they are writers they are greatly influenced .
the morals of the time felt a duty to her children and a certainty that if she and Thackeray eloped together both would be ostracized . But all men are influenced by their mothers . If they are writers they are greatly influenced .
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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