DEATH OF THACKERAY.
I—- | It has been noticed that at the end o| the year many more deaths of celebrated persons occur than at the beginning, and at no time has the English nation deplored the loss of a writer more than when, on Christmas morning of 1863, the death of William Makepeace Thackeray was | announced as having taken place on the previous day. His writings had j mostly an historical tendency. We ' learn from “Harry Esmond” about [ the times and doings of Queen Anne. • "The Virginians” give to us a fine description of early American warfare. “The Four Georges” may be taken as one of the finest pieces of satirical writing ever penned. And 1 who has not read “Vanity Fair” and j gained some idea of the Peninsular : War from its pages ? In America, ' even during the present decadent age the author is read and enjoyed by j thousands. We have his imitators on our library shelves ) but there is only ‘ one Thackeray. He was one of the ' greatest, and certainly the most original, of English novelists, and was the first editor of the “Cornhill.”
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 7, 18 September 1906, Page 2
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