81 relations: A Shabby Genteel Story, Adam Buxton, Al Murray, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Anthony Trollope, Barry Lyndon, Bath, Somerset, BBC Radio 4, Bengal Engineer Group, Bildungsroman, Blue plaque, Carlo Marochetti, Catherine (novel), Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Charterhouse School, Chiswick, Coming of age, Cornhill Magazine, Daguerreotype, East India Company, Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell, Embassy of Israel, London, Fraser's Magazine, George Chinnery, George Orwell, Great Famine (Ireland), Henry Fielding, Henry James, Honoré de Balzac, House of Hanover, Ippolito Nievo, Irish Catholics, Ivanhoe, Jane Eyre, Jane Octavia Brookfield, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Bunyan, John Leech (caricaturist), Jonathan Swift, Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensington Gardens, Kolkata, Leslie Stephen, London, Men's Wives, Middle Temple, Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Napoleon, ..., Newgate novel, Pendennis, Picaresque novel, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Punch (magazine), Roger Bontemps, Royal Society of Arts, Saint Helena, Satire, Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Snob, South 24 Parganas, South Mimms, Southampton, Stanley Kubrick, Stroke, The Adventures of Philip, The Book of Snobs, The History of Henry Esmond, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Morning Chronicle, The Newcomes, The Rose and the Ring, The Times, The Virginians, Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Urethral stricture, Vanity Fair (novel), Weimar, Westminster Abbey. Expand index (31 more) »
A Shabby Genteel Story
A Shabby Genteel Story is an early and unfinished novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Adam Buxton
Adam Offord Buxton (born 7 June 1969) is an English comedian, writer and actor.
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Al Murray
Alastair James Hay Murray (born 10 May 1968), is an English comedian and TV personality.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.
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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray (9 June 1837 – 26 February 1919), was an English writer.
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era.
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Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
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Bengal Engineer Group
The Bengal Engineer Group (BEG) or the Bengal Sappers or Bengal Engineers as they are informally known, are remnants of British Indian Army's Bengal Army of the Bengal Presidency in British India; now a regiment of the Corps of Engineers in the Indian Army.
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Bildungsroman
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman ("bildung", meaning "education", and "roman", meaning "novel"; English: "novel of formation, education, culture"; "coming-of-age story") is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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Carlo Marochetti
Baron Carlo (Charles) Marochetti (4 January 1805 – 29 December 1867) was an Italian-born French sculptor.
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Catherine (novel)
Catherine: A Story was the first full-length work of fiction produced by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.
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Charterhouse School
Charterhouse is an independent day and boarding school in Godalming, Surrey.
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Chiswick
Chiswick is a district of west London, England.
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Coming of age
Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult.
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Cornhill Magazine
The Cornhill Magazine (1860–1975) was a Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the publisher's address at 65 Cornhill in London.
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Daguerreotype
The Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly available photographic process, and for nearly twenty years it was the one most commonly used.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell, PC, PC (Ire), FRS (24 July 1813 – 15 February 1886) was a prominent British politician in the Peelite and Liberal parties during the middle of the 19th century.
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Embassy of Israel, London
The Embassy of Israel in London is the diplomatic mission of Israel in the United Kingdom.
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Fraser's Magazine
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country was a general and literary journal published in London from 1830 to 1882, which initially took a strong Tory line in politics.
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George Chinnery
George Chinnery (Chinese: 錢納利; 5 January 1774 – 30 May 1852) was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine (an Gorta Mór) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849.
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Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the picaresque novel Tom Jones.
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Henry James
Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
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Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.
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House of Hanover
The House of Hanover (or the Hanoverians; Haus Hannover) is a German royal dynasty that ruled the Electorate and then the Kingdom of Hanover, and also provided monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1800 and ruled the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from its creation in 1801 until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.
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Ippolito Nievo
Ippolito Nievo (30 November 1831 – 4 March 1861) was an Italian writer, journalist and patriot.
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Irish Catholics
Irish Catholics are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland that are both Catholic and Irish.
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Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1820 in three volumes and subtitled A Romance.
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.
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Jane Octavia Brookfield
Jane Octavia Brookfield (25 March 1821 – 27 November 1896) was a literary hostess and writer, best known for her platonic friendship with William Makepeace Thackeray, and the four indifferent novels that she wrote.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.
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John Bunyan
John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.
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John Leech (caricaturist)
John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864 in London) was an English caricaturist and illustrator.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Kensal Green Cemetery
Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.
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Kensington Gardens
Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London.
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Kolkata
Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Men's Wives
Men's Wives (1852) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Middle Temple
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.
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Mrs. Perkins's Ball
Mrs.
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Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Newgate novel
The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed.
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Pendennis
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848–1850) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Picaresque novel
The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by their wits in a corrupt society.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.
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Punch (magazine)
Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.
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Roger Bontemps
Roger Bontemps is semi-mythical French figure who personifies a state of leisure and freedom from care.
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Royal Society of Arts
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.
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Saint Helena
Saint Helena is a volcanic tropical island in the South Atlantic Ocean, east of Rio de Janeiro and 1,950 kilometres (1,210 mi) west of the Cunene River, which marks the border between Namibia and Angola in southwestern Africa.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Siegbert Salomon Prawer
Siegbert Salomon Prawer, MA PhD LittD DLitt FBA (born 15 February 1925 in Cologne, Germany; died 5 April 2012 in Oxford, England) was Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.
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Snob
Snob is a pejorative term for a person that believes there is a correlation between social status and human worth.
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South 24 Parganas
South 24 Parganas is a district in the Indian State of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore.
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South Mimms
South Mimms, sometimes spelt South Mymms, is a village and civil parish forming part of the Hertsmere district of Hertfordshire in the East of England.
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Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Stroke
A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.
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The Adventures of Philip
The Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World: Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By (1861–62) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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The Book of Snobs
The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair.
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The History of Henry Esmond
The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852.
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.
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The Morning Chronicle
The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London, England, and published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication.
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The Newcomes
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1854 and 1855.
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The Rose and the Ring
The Rose and The Ring is a satirical work of fantasy fiction written by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published at Christmas 1854 (though dated 1855).
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The Times
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.
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The Virginians
The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century (1857–59) is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which forms a sequel to his Henry Esmond and is also loosely linked to Pendennis.
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Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Urethral stricture
A urethral stricture is a narrowing of the urethra caused by injury, instrumentation, infection and certain non-infectious forms of urethritis.
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Vanity Fair (novel)
Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
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Weimar
Weimar (Vimaria or Vinaria) is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray