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Virginia Woolf was all but born between the covers of a book, grew up and lived there until one day in 1941 when she stepped out to drown herself in the River Ouse. Her father's first wife was Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night...
Bulwer-Lytton was Tauchnitz's first author. Soon the library published Dickens, Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Macaulay, Thackeray, Carlyle, Trollope, George Eliot. Later it published Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy. Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Kathleen Norris were among its most popular U.S. writers. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes sold 100,000 copies...
Gordon N. Ray, to prepare for publication an authorized edition of "The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray...
...before the Civil War went to 200,000, to become the first truly national U.S. magazine. (First Harper's Editor Henry J. Raymond in his spare time co-founded the New York Times.) Famed for its copious illustrations, it published the greatest contemporary English fiction (Dickens, Thackeray, et al.), plugged U.S. short stories, wrote about science, business, religion, politics, the West. Less literary than its later competitors (Century, Atlantic Monthly), it became a gold mine for historians...
...hear Copey read the Sixth and Seventh Chapters of the Book of Revelation in the silver tones that have earned him recognition the country over. On hand also is a recording by Bliss Perry, who gives a literary talk on Emerson's "Last Days in Concord" and Thackeray's "Henry Esmond...