THACKERAY'S HOUSE.
A rumour that Thackeray's house, No. 16, Young Street, Kensington, London, in which he wrote Vanity Fair, " Pendcnnis," and " Esmond," is to he pulled down for street improvements is the owners of the property. Messrs. denied by Messrs. ,Tohn Barker and Co., Barker are about to erect a great, business fitoro behind and in streets adjoining the famous house. The Daily Telegraph suggests that inavbe in the course of time Barkers will boast a Thackeray department, no other than No. 16, at once a library and a shrine. Literary associations "aro no mean asset to a business Thackeray moved from No. 16 into more palatial surroundings, but he always loved the old house. There is a story that when passing it in later years with Fields, the American publisher, Thackeray exclaimed with mock gravity, " Down on votir knees, you rogue,- for hero ' Vanity Fair' was penned; and T will go down with you, for I havo a high opinion of that little production myself."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19292, 3 April 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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166THACKERAY'S HOUSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19292, 3 April 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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