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Catherine: A Story was the first novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized instalments in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840, credited to "Ikey Solomons, Esq. Junior". [1]
Catherine: A Story was the first novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray. It first appeared in serialized instalments in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840, credited to "Ikey Solomons, Esq. Junior".
Written in 1839-40 for Fraser's Magazine, Catherine was Thackeray's first novel. Although originally intended as a spoof of the 1830s Newgate school of criminal romance, it has intrinsic...
1 de nov. de 1999 · Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Catherine, Thackeray’s first true novelistic work of fiction, appeared serially in Fraser’s from 1839-1840. Inspired by an 18th-century account of Catherine Hayes, burnt alive for the murder of her husband, Thackeray parodied popular crime novels in which criminals were made to seem heroic.
This dissertation consists of a critically edited text of William Makepeace Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, along with a complete set of annotations, an extensive textual apparatus, appendices reprinting the sources for the real-life murder story on which Thackeray based his novel, and commentaries discussing the politics of the novel, the ...
26 de sept. de 2008 · The story of “Catherine,” which appeared in Fraser's Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal.
