Category: Biographies
Thackeray does not give the same opportunities for the identification of his scenes as Dickens. The elaboration with which the latter localizes his characters, and the descriptive minutiæ with which he makes their haunts no less memorable than themselves, are not to be found i...
Charterhouse is the centre of a neighbourhood which Dickens chose for many of his scenes, as the reader of this knows. “Only a wall,” says Thackeray, in _Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berr...
1. Part 1Thackeray does not give the same opportunities for the identification of his scenes as Dickens. The elaboration with which the latter localizes his characters, and the descripti...
3. Part 3Pall Mall is the street of gentlemen, as Fleet Street was the street of the ragged literary mendicants, whose wretched lot has been drawn in vivid colours by Macauley. The peopl...
4. Part 4In the eyes of the lover of Thackeray, no character of history or fiction has lent more interest to Mayfair than Becky, to which neighbourhood she came with her husband some two...