This book, the second of two volumes anticipating the bicentenary
of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not
only the author's life, but also the cosmopolitan and literary
worlds inhabited by his two daughters, Minny and Annie. Memory and
Legacy continues the family saga long after Thackeray's death,
tracing the later lives of his two daughters and their marriages.
Minny would marry Leslie Stephen, later father of Virginia Woolf,
but would die in premature labour at the age of just thirty-five.
With her death, the narrative takes as its focus Thackeray's elder
daughter Annie, as she overcomes the loss of her sister and goes on
to build a life of her own. Encouraged in early years by her
father, Annie would herself emerge as a successful novelist, though
one always living, albeit willingly, within her father's shadow. In
particular, she took responsibility for guarding and shaping her
father's legacy until her own death in 1919. Drawing extensively on
the letters, diaries, journals and notebooks of the Thackerays and
their circle, Aplin sheds light on this remarkable man's family,
and the effect that his life, death and legacy had on those closest
to him. The first biography of the Thackeray family circle since
that of Gordon Ray in 1958, Aplin's two-part study incorporates
significant new documentary evidence, some of it never previously
seen by Thackeray scholars, and includes the fullest and frankest
examination of the lives of Thackeray's two daughters yet
published. Illustrated with portraits, group photographs, and
original sketches by the Thackerays, this book is a wholly new
reappraisal of Thackeray's life, writing, and legacy through the
lens that truly defined him - his family. It will appeal not just
to those interested in Thackeray and the Victorians, but also to
readers of biography, women's studies and memoirs, and to followers
of Viriginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.
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