Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thackeray, William Makepeace ( 1811 – 63 ),born in Calcutta, the son of Richmond Thackeray , a collector in the East India Company's service. His father died when he was 3, and Thackeray was sent home to England in 1817 , to be rejoined by his mother, who had married again, in 1820 . Thackeray was educated at Charterhouse, where he was not happy, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a close friend of E. Fitzgerald . He left Cambridge in June 1830 without taking a degree, having lost some of his inheritance through gambling. He visited Paris, and spent the winter of 1830 – 1 in Weimar, where he met Goethe . He entered the Middle Temple, but he had little enthusiasm for the law, and never practised as a barrister. He began his career in journalism by becoming the proprietor of a struggling weekly paper, the National Standard, in 1833 . It ceased publication a year later, but the...
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