Forced to consider a profession to support himself, he turned first to art, which he studied in Paris. When he hit the age of 21 he came into his inheritance from his dad, but squandered a lot of it on gambling and on funding two different unsuccessful papers The Constitutional and The National Standard, for which he was hoping to write.Īdditionally, he lost a good chunk of his fortune in the collapse of a pair of Indian banks. He went back to England, starting to study law at Middle Temple, but quickly gave up on that. William then traveled for a bit of time on the continent, visiting Weimar, where he met Goethe. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge for a time, however, was never too keen on academic studies, and left Cambridge in 1830, but some of his earliest published writing appeared in two university periodicals The Snob and The Gownsman. The illness he suffered during his final year there, during which he grew up to his full height of six foot three inches, postponed his attending Trinity College, until early 1829. He hated Charterhouse, parodying it in his work as “Slaughterhouse”. During his time in England, he was educated at schools in Chiswick and Southampton, and then at Charterhouse School, where he became close friends with John Leech. The ship he traveled on made a short stop in Saint Helena, where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him.
His dad died in 1816 which led Anne to send William, then age five, to England that same year, as she stayed behind in India. He is best known for his satirical works, especially his 1848 book “Vanity Fair”, as well as “The Luck of Barry Lyndon”, which Stanley Kubrick adapted into a movie in the year 1975. William was an illustrator, novelist, and author. His mom, Anne Becher, was Harriet Becher and John Harman Becher’s second daughter, John was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company. William Makepeace Thackeray was born an only child Jin Calcutta, India to Richmond Thackery, secretary to the Board of Revenue in the East India Company. The English Humorists Of The Eighteenth Century Brown's Letters to a Young Man about Town Selected Letters Of William Makepeace Thackeray The Letters And Private Papers Of William Makepeace Thackeray The Hitherto Unpublished Contributions of W.M. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
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