Thackeray was sent from India, where his father worked for the East India Company, to England in 1817, where he studied at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. Leaving school without a degree, he travelled in Europe, and for a short time was in Middle Temple studying for the bar. In 1833, he became the owner of The National Standard and, after its demise, studied art in Paris. He returned to England in 1837 and became a contributor to Fraser's Magazine and also wrote for leading newspapers. He began contributing to Punch magazine in 1842, but almost all of his work up to this point had been published under various pseudonyms. His greatest work, Vanity Fair, appeared as a serialization from 1847 to 1848, and was immensely successful. He continued to write for Punch until 1854, when he retired. His last position was as the first editor of Cornhill Magazine (1860-62). Among Thackeray's major works are Men's Wives (1843), Bluebeard's Ghost (1844), The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1846), The Book of Snobs (1847), Pendennis (1848), The Virginians (1859) and a large number of short stories, poetry and essays. |
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