On a pillar in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey is a white marble bust, with a brown marble base, to novelist and essayist William Makepeace Thackeray. It is placed near Addison's statue and is by ...

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Harriet Marian ("Minny") Thackeray Stephen (1840-1875) and Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) are seen here standing outdoors in 1867. Minny was the youngest daughter of the novelist William Makepeace ...

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William Makepeace Thackeray’s literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, following the young Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty. Previously ...

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