Thackeray: Volume 1: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
An Account of Thackeray, by Himself....Pages 1-3
An Observant Boy with a Large Head....Pages 4-6
Charterhouse or Slaughter House or Grey Friars....Pages 6-19
The Cambridge Year or So....Pages 19-23
That Excellent and Facetious Young Man....Pages 23-26
Would Have Cogged Well with Scott and Johnson....Pages 27-33
Big, Fierce, Weeping, Hungry, but Not Strong....Pages 33-39
A Cynicism Not of the Heart....Pages 40-43
Thackeray Sells Vanity Fair: and Other Matters....Pages 43-52
With the Artist Banditti in Rome....Pages 52-54
Twopenny Tarts and Cigars....Pages 55-58
Our Beloved Giant, Our King of Men....Pages 58-64
The Cockney in Ireland, 1842....Pages 64-71
The Biter Bit: Thackeray as a Fictional Character....Pages 72-78
Young Street and Vanity Fair....Pages 78-84
Living Always in the Almighty Presence....Pages 85-88
Kind, Generous and Playful....Pages 88-93
A Kensington Worthy....Pages 93-96
A Kind, Humane and Perfectly Honest Man....Pages 96-101
A Kindly Godfather....Pages 101-103
Goodness Showed through his Noticeable Defects....Pages 103-106
‘A Great and Strange Man’....Pages 106-112
A Flesh and Blood Genius....Pages 112-124
The Reluctant Lecturer....Pages 124-130
His Arch-tormentor Arcedeckne....Pages 130-133
Recollections of a Secretary....Pages 133-137
A Discreetly Silent Freethinker?....Pages 138-139
The Jester with a Melancholy Face....Pages 140-145
The Depths of his Great Nature....Pages 145-151
A Most Agreeable Man....Pages 151-153
‘No Ortolans for Pendennis!’....Pages 154-156
As Playful as a Schoolboy....Pages 156-167
A High-bred and Considerate Gentleman....Pages 167-171
The Kind, Sympathetic Side of his Great Nature....Pages 172-177
Animated but Sensitive and Sad....Pages 178-185
His Simple Naturalness....Pages 186-191