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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Thackeray, William M.

Thackeray, William M.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Born In India:

Vanity Fair was first published in book form in 1848 and immediately
established its thirty-seven-year-old author, William Makepeace Thackeray, in
the front rank of English novelists. Almost everything in Thackeray's varied
and sometimes rather catch-as-catch-can life up to this date contributed to
the novel. His birth in Calcutta, India, for example, into a family of
Anglo-Indian civil servants, suggests the source of some of the specific
detail of the book ("Boggley Wollah," "The History of the Punjab," etc.), but,
more important, ...

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