About the Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet and John Harman Becher and was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.
William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stopover at St. Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Paperback, Published in Mar 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN10: 1443801917 | ISBN13: 9781443801911
Page count: 279
This volume gathers numerous travel and descriptive writings not found in Thackeray's other travel books, together with the short comic serial 'The Fatal Boots' and the little-known play 'The Wolves and the Lamb, ' which Thackeray later used as the basis for his novel 'Lovel the Widower'
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