![]() ![]() ![]() This change in circumstance led him to pursue his career as a writer more seriously, firstly in journalism where he worked for the conservative publication Frazer’s Magazine. The turning point in his life came in 1836 when he married Isabella Shawe with whom he would eventually have three children. Although Thackeray received an inheritance when he reached twenty one, he lost most of it either gambling, investing poorly or living too much of the social high life. He was not the most academically gifted or serious of students and left after two years, choosing instead to travel in Europe for a while. In his later youth, Thackeray went to Charterhouse School which he didn’t much care for, and would later parody, before heading to Cambridge where he first began to write poetry. ![]() He was born in Calcutta, India, in 1811 but his father died just a few years later and his mother promptly sent the young Thackeray back to England where he went to school in Southampton and then Chiswick, near London. Mostly well-known for being a novelist, particularly for his work Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray was also a poet of some repute and published a number of verses during his lifetime. ![]()
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