William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July, 1811 – 24 December, 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.

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Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray, worked as secretary to the board of revenue for the British East India Company. William Thackeray's mother, Anne née Beacher, married Richmond on 13 October, 1810 after being sent to India in 1809 by her grandmother. She was sent abroad after her grandmother told her that the man she loved, Henry Charmichael-Smyth, had died. This was a lie on the part of her grandmother, who wished a better marriage for her than a mere ensign, but the lie was revealed in 1812 when Richmond unwittingly invited to dinner the supposed dead man. This shock reunion seems to have weakened their marriage beyond repair and Richmond Thackeray died shortly afterwards on 13 September, 1815. Henry Charmichael-Smyth married Anne in 1818 and they returned to England shortly after.

William was sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stop over at St. Helena where the prisoner Napoleon was pointed out to him. He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School, where he was a close friend of John Leech. Although an able student he disliked the regimes and masters, parodying them in his later fiction and calling Charterhouse "Slaughterhouse" as at that time it was close to Smithfield Market. He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, but his academic performance waned in his second year at Cambridge and he dropped out in 1830.

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WHY do I get so much post and why is it all such crap? And where's my new Vanity Fair?
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