![]() He wrote occasional poems, ballads, comic poems, and parodies, and some of his poems were published in Punch. Thackeray first wrote poetry while he was a student at Trinity. ![]() ![]() Thackeray’s wife suffered from depression, and in later life, he was frequently occupied with searching for a cure for her illness and raising their two children. He wrote travel books, among them The Paris Sketch Book (1840) and From Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1844), and novels, including Vanity Fair (1847–48), Pendennis (1848–50), The Newcomes (1853–55), and The Virginians (1857–59). Some of his novels were also published in serialized form in magazines. After traveling to the continent and leading a life of socializing and gambling, he worked as a freelance journalist, submitting work to Punch, the Times, and other publications. He eventually attended the Charterhouse School-infamous for its discipline-and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he left after two years. His father died when he was five, and Thackeray was sent to England to be educated. Perhaps best known as a novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, in 1811. ![]()
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