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Letters Of William Makepeace Thackeray The Letters And Private Papers Of William Makepeace Thackeray The Hitherto Unpublished Contributions of W.M. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
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