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MAKEPEACE
THACKERAY
18 July 1811 – 24
December 1863
Calcutta, British India
Died 24 December 1863 (aged 52)
London, UK
Occupation Novelist, poet
Nationality English
Period 1829–1863
(published posthumously)
Genre Historical fiction
Notable work-Vanity Fair
Spouse Isabella Gethin Shawe
Children 3, including Anne Isabella
(1837–1919)
PORTRAIT OF THACKERAY IN
HIS STUDY, C.1860
THE NOVEL “WITHOUT A HERO”
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559)
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