This book, the first 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. When Thackeray
died in 1863, the two sisters were forced to find their own way
forward. Minny would marry Leslie Stephen, later father of Virginia
Woolf, and die at only thirty-five; Annie, encouraged in early
years by her father, would herself emerge as a successful novelist,
though one always living, albeit willingly, within her father's
shadow. Drawing continuously 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 book will appeal not
just to those interested in Thackeray and the Victorians, but also
to readers of biography, womenis studies and memoirs, and to
followers of Viriginia Woolf and Bloomsbury.
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