Thackeray: Volume 2: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Moral Conflicts and Religious Beliefs....Pages 193-202
The Tenderest-hearted Cynic....Pages 202-205
Tender-hearted, Almost Womanly....Pages 205-208
Father at Work....Pages 208-211
Writing and Reading The Newcomes....Pages 212-218
The Real Thackeray....Pages 218-228
Memories of a Right-hand Man....Pages 228-242
The Man with the Largest Mass of Brain....Pages 242-251
My Hearty, Hospitable, Beloved and Honoured Friend....Pages 251-253
‘The Kindest and Truest Heart that Ever Beat’....Pages 254-256
Literary Habits, Tastes and Plans....Pages 256-264
‘The Essential Manliness of his Nature’....Pages 264-273
A Certain Boyish and Impulsive Strain....Pages 273-276
A Man Apart, and Sad....Pages 276-279
The Perfectly Conformist English Gentleman....Pages 279-282
Wine and Talk in Paris....Pages 282-284
Imperfections Outweighed by Manly Virtues....Pages 284-299
Vexed to Hear Dickens Praised....Pages 299-300
‘We Had our Differences of Opinion’....Pages 301-306
Thackeray and my Father....Pages 306-311
Thackeray and Dickens: Some Anecdotes....Pages 311-313
The Garrick Club Affair....Pages 313-320
Punch Lines....Pages 320-326
‘Almost Infantile Openness of Nature’....Pages 326-328
Less Awesome than Dickens....Pages 328-331
The Softness, and the Weakness, of a Woman....Pages 331-337
Tipsy and Undignified....Pages 338-340
Founder-editor of the Cornhill Magazine....Pages 341-346
‘Dear Old Kindly Child!’....Pages 347-355
A Man of Moods....Pages 355-359
Glimpses....Pages 359-368
Intimations of Mortality....Pages 369-372
Some Obituaries....Pages 373-381
A Man Not Easily Summed Up....Pages 381-382
Back Matter....Pages 383-394