Vanity Fair

References

Notes

The "Becky doll" constructs her house of cards
  1. ^ "It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity."[5]
  2. ^ The narrator claims in Chapter 62 to have first seen Dobbin, Amelia, and Jos at Pumpernickel on their European tour (so very late in the narrative) and that he is "the present writer of a history of which every word is true",[20] but admits that most of his story has been gossip.
  3. ^ French: "...is the rest."
  4. ^ In addition to its other intentions, the name was a jab at Thomas Carlyle's "Lectures on Hero and Hero-Worship".[47]
  5. ^ In the letter where he recorded these sums, Thackeray noted "Three more years please the Fates and the girls will have eight or ten thousand a-piece that I want for them: we must n't say a word against filthy lucre for I see the use and comfort of it every day more and more. What a blessing not to mind about bills."[46]
  6. ^ To a German visitor who told him he had learned to read English from Vanity Fair, Thackeray replied "And that's where I learned to write it".[56]
  7. ^ Examples include Carey's Prodigal Genius[63] and McAloon's defence of the work in The Telegraph.[64]
  8. ^ The trio of lawyers Becky gets to defend herself from the claims—Burke, Thurtell, and Hayes—are named after prominent murderers of the time, although this may have been a tease or commentary on the legal profession itself.

Citations

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  3. ^ Matthews, Roy T.; Mellini, Peter (1982). In 'Vanity Fair'. University of California Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780520043008.
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  8. ^ Milne (2015), p. 103.
  9. ^ a b Milne (2015), p. 104
  10. ^ Milne (2015), p. 102.
  11. ^ Espinasse, Francis (1885), "Robert Bell (1800–1867)", Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. IV, London: Smith, Elder, & Co..
  12. ^ Milne (2015), p. 109.
  13. ^ "Jeremiah 17", Bible Gateway.
  14. ^ Milne (2015), p. 110
  15. ^ a b Vanity Fair, 1848, pp. vii–ix.
  16. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 624.
  17. ^ York (1997), p. 61.
  18. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 134.
  19. ^ a b Heiler (2010), p. 61.
  20. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 563.
  21. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 605.
  22. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 288.
  23. ^ a b c Sutherland (1988), "Vanity Fair".
  24. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 15.
  25. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 624.
  26. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 32.
  27. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 9.
  28. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 103.
  29. ^ a b Wilson & al. (1970), p. 86.
  30. ^ Taylor (2004).
  31. ^ York (1997), pp. 16 ff.
  32. ^ York (1997), pp. 20–1.
  33. ^ York (1997), p. 22.
  34. ^ "Readers love a good anti-hero – so why do they shun anti-heroines?" by Emma Jane Unsworth, The Guardian, 18 November 2014
  35. ^ Milne (2015), p. 110–111.
  36. ^ York (1997), pp. 22 ff.
  37. ^ York (1997), pp. 30 ff.
  38. ^ York (1997), pp. 24 ff.
  39. ^ Shillingsburg, Peter, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  40. ^ a b Macguire, Matthew (2000), "W.M. Thackeray's Illustrations for Vanity Fair", The Victorian Web.
  41. ^ a b Tillotson & al. (1963), pp. xvii ff..
  42. ^ a b York (1997), p. 29.
  43. ^ Tillotson & al.,[41] cited in York.[42]
  44. ^ a b c Milne (2015), p. 108.
  45. ^ Tillotson & al.,[41] cited in York.[42]
  46. ^ a b c Wilson & al. (1970), p. 13.
  47. ^ Sutherland (1988), "Carlyle & Carlylism".
  48. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 36.
  49. ^ a b York (1997), p. 28.
  50. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 504.
  51. ^ York (1997), p. 133.
  52. ^ Dibattista (1980).
  53. ^ Jadwin (1993), p. 48.
  54. ^ "Suppressed Plates", Pall Mall Magazine, London, 1899{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
  55. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 577.
  56. ^ Wilson & al. (1970), p. 85.
  57. ^ Wilson & al. (1970), p. 8.
  58. ^ See, e.g., The Times review of 10 July 1848.
  59. ^ Ray (1946), p. 309.
  60. ^ a b Milne (2015), p. 111.
  61. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. viii.
  62. ^ Cecil, David (1934), Early Victorian Novelists, Constable, p. 69.
  63. ^ Carey, John (1977). Thackeray: Prodigal Genius. Faber. ISBN 9780571111268.
  64. ^ McAloon, Jonathan (20 June 2015), "Why Vanity Fair Is the Greatest Novel about Waterloo", The Daily Telegraph.
  65. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, pp. 450 & 624.
  66. ^ Vanity Fair, 1848, p. 450.
  67. ^ Sutherland, John (1996). Is Heathcliff A Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-century Fiction. Oxford University Press.
  68. ^ "Vanity Fair". Favorite Story. Old Time Radio Downloads. 6 December 1947.
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  71. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Vanity Fair".
  72. ^ Vanity Fair. Films 101. 1911.
  73. ^ Yarmarka tshcheslaviya at IMDb
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  75. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (25 September 2017). "'Vanity Fair': Suranne Jones, Michael Palin Join Olivia Cooke In ITV/Amazon Drama". deadline.com. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
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