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...Lion. This biography by Syracuse University Professor Terhune is the best documented life to date of Victorian England's least-documented poet. "Fitz," a lifelong friend of Carlyle, Thackeray and Tennyson, came of a rich and ancient family, was able to shape his life about as he wished it. He did not wish to become a literary lion. "Tell Thackeray," he wrote firmly to a friend at the age of 21, "that he is never to invite me to his house, as I never intend to go. ... I am going to become a great bear; and have...
Masters of Mayhem. Bab Gilbert grew up in that peculiarly Victorian period which saw the rise of the limerick, the nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...
Although by no means a best seller, the proudest accomplishment of the publishing organization is the monumental four-volume edition of the William Makepeace Thackeray letters...
...picture showed a Town & Country with its snooty tongue tucked in a still unwithered cheek. For its lead article, man-about-town-&-country Editor Henry Adsit Bull ran a 50.000-word T. & C. autobiography that confessed to a few youthful indiscretions: it had brazenly pirated the works of Dickens, Thackeray and their Continental contemporaries (a common crime of the time), even while campaigning for a copyright law that would make such piracy illegal...
...title. She alone understands her brother's woe; he dies in her arms. She alone really knows what love can mean, but hides her own love for the curate (Paul Henreid) because Charlotte loves him, too. Even when Charlotte whisks off to London, to be wined & dined by Thackeray (Sidney Greenstreet), Emily remains faithful to the moors. At length, her death slips the leash for Charlotte and the curate...