Thackeray

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<p><i>Vanity Fair</i>, published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous 'all but at the top of the tree', he told his mother, 'and having a great fight up there with Dickens'. Behind him lay an extraordinary life - an intense, Anglo-Indian childhood, a fortune lost by his early twenties, a disastrous marriage to a wife who went mad and left him to bring up two small daughters in near penury.</p><p>But his later life was no less troubled. As D.J. Taylor shows in this incisive biography, Thackeray was a complex, touchy man, acutely sensitive to criticism and fearful of the publicity that accompanied his passage through life.</p>

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D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer, whose biography of Thackeray was a critically-acclaimed success and whose<i>Orwell: The Life</i>won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are<i>Kept: A Victorian Mystery</i>(a<i>Publishers Weekly</i>Book of the Year),<i>Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940</i>, and the novels<i>Ask Alice</i>,<i>At the Chime of a City Clock</i>and, most recently,<i>Derby Day.</i>

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