He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School. Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stopover at St. A novel that chronicles the lives of two women. Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet and John Harman Becher and was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, William Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 – 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. His mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864) was the second daughter of Harriet and John Harman Becher and was also a secretary (writer) for the East India Company.
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