Thackeray, William Makepeace (M)

b. 18 July 1811. d. 23 December 1863. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, novelist, illustrator, and critic. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Friends with Henry Alford, William Brookfield, Richard Monckton Milnes, Edward Fitzgerald, and Alfred Tennyson. Acquainted with Charles Dickens. Married Isabella Gethin Shawe on 20 August 1836. Author of *Vanity Fair* (1847) and *Barry Lyndon* (1844). Became a member of the Garrick Club (1833). Editor of *Cornhill Magazine* (1860-1862). Biographical information: *ODNB*. (CC)

Poems associated with this person

Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Pen and the Album 1853 The Keepsake Poet 5613
Lucy’s Birthday 1854 The Keepsake Poet 5641
Vanitas Vanitatum 1860-07 The Cornhill Magazine Poet 11945
The Nightingale 1864 Good Words Poet 1619
Mrs. Katherine’s Lantern. (Written by W. M. Thackeray in a Lady’s Album.) 1867-01 The Cornhill Magazine Poet 12048
”’Tis one o’clock, the boy from ‘Punch’ is sitting in the passage here” 1887-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8632
Sorrows of Werther 1899-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7936