William Makepeace Thackeray (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from William Makepeace Thackeray William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta on July 18, 1811. His family, sprung from yoemen of Yorkshire, was distinguished throughout the eighteenth century in the learned professions, as well as in the civil and military services of India. Thackerays not a few had lived and died in the making of our Eastern Empire. They had done those deeds of simple heroism which benefit a people, and bring their authors but little fame. They had built roads, they had administered justice, and more than one had fallen on the battle-field. Eminent amongst them was Richmond Thackeray, Collector at Alipur, who in 1810 married Anne Becher, herself the daughter of a family famous in Bengal. Five years later the Collector died, leaving a widow and one son, William Makepeace, just four years old, who grew up to be the author of Vanity Fair. Like Clive Newcome, William Makepeace left India a child of six, and when he pictured the Colonel "tottering up the steps of the ghaut, " he pictured his own experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.