The Inheritance of Genius, (Thackeray Vol 1): A Thackeray Family Biography 1798-1875

by John Aplin

This book, the first of two volumes anticipating the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not only the author's life, but also the cosmopolitan and literary worlds inhabited by his two daughters, Minny and Annie. When Thackeray died in 1863, the two sisters were forced to find their own way forward. Minny would marry Leslie Stephen, later father of Virginia Woolf, and die at only thirty-five; Annie, encouraged in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718892240
• ISBN13: 9780718892241
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"