William Tekerey. William Makepeace Thackeray / ˈ θækəri/ (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous. - презентация

1 William Tekerey

2 William Makepeace Thackeray / ˈ θækəri/ (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. / ˈ θækəri/satiricalVanity Fairsociety/ ˈ θækəri/satiricalVanity Fairsociety

3 Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta,India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), was secretary to the board of revenue in the BritishEast India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher, who was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company. CalcuttaEast India CompanyCalcuttaEast India Company

4 William's father, Richmond, died in 1815, which caused his mother to send him to England in 1816 (whilst she remained in India). The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover atSt. Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton andChiswick and then at Charterhouse School, where he was a close friend of John Leech. He disliked Charterhouse, parodying it in his later fiction as "Slaughterhouse." St. HelenaNapoleonSouthamptonChiswickCharterhouse SchoolJohn LeechSt. HelenaNapoleonSouthamptonChiswickCharterhouse SchoolJohn Leech

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6 He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication, for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. From 1837 to 1840 he also reviewed books for The Times. He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created Punch magazine, where he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob." Fraser's MagazineCatherineThe Luck of Barry LyndonThe TimesJohn LeechPunchThe Book of SnobsFraser's MagazineCatherineThe Luck of Barry LyndonThe TimesJohn LeechPunchThe Book of Snobs

7 Thackeray also gave lectures in London on the English humorists of the eighteenth century, and on the first four Hanoverian monarchs. The latter series was published in book form asThe Four Georges. In Oxford, he stood unsuccessfully as an independent for Parliament. He was narrowly beaten by Cardwell (1070 votes, against 1005 for Thackeray). In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine, but was never comfortable as an editor, preferring to contribute to the magazine as a columnist, producing his Roundabout Papers for it. The Four GeorgesCornhill MagazineRoundabout PapersThe Four GeorgesCornhill MagazineRoundabout Papers

8 Family life

9 Thackeray's father, Richmond Thackeray, was born at South Mimms and went to India in 1798 at age sixteen as a writer (civil servant) with the East India Company. Richmond fathered a daughter, Sarah Redfield, in 1804 with Charlotte Sophia Rudd, his possibly Eurasian mistress, and both mother and daughter were named in his will. Such liaisons were common among gentlemen of the East India Company, and it formed no bar to his later courting and marrying William's mother South MimmsEast India CompanySouth MimmsEast India Company

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