{"id":554,"date":"2024-12-05T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athaeneum\/?p=554"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:19:11","slug":"thackerays-works-vanity-fair-1873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/thackerays-works-vanity-fair-1873\/","title":{"rendered":"Thackeray\u2019s Works: Vanity Fair (1873)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    • Title: Thackeray\u2019s Works: Vanity Fair Vol. 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Author: William Thackeray<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Publisher: J.B. Lippincott and Co.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Estimated year of printing: 1873 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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      William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.  He was born in Calcutta, British India, where his father worked for the East India Company.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      After moving to England and starting a family, he had only inconsistent success until the publication of Vanity Fair<\/em>, initially in serial form from January 1847 through July 1848.  Vanity Fair<\/em> is a satire of 19th-century British society, following the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley during the Napoleonic Wars.  Even before it had completed its run, he had become a literary celebrity, being compared to Charles Dickens.  The title comes from John Bunyan\u2019s novel The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em>, first published in 1678, referring to a step along the pilgrim\u2019s route: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity.  The title of this book inspired 5 different, unrelated, magazine to also carry the name Vanity Fair<\/em> between 1859 to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      After the serial publication, this book was published many times, including this edition which is part of a collection of Thackeray\u2019s works published after his death.  This is an attractive, finely bound edition showing marbling on the cover, endpapers, and edges.  This is unfortunately just volume 2 of a two-volume edition of the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      He wrote several more large novels, none of which was as popular as Vanity Fair<\/em>, which sustained his popularity.\u00a0 He was known for having poor eating and exercise habits, which contributed to his early death from a stroke at the age of 52. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Notes: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 – 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.  He was born in Calcutta, British India, where his father worked for the East India Company.   After moving to England and starting a family, he had only inconsistent success until the publication of Vanity Fair, initially in serial form from January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}