Although he never returned to the country, yet his works feature many veterans who had served in Kolkata. His father died in 1815, and in 1816 Thackeray was sent home to England. His grandfather, also named William, was the first collector of Sylhet and both the novelist’s grandparents and parents were married at St John’s Church of Kolkata. Thackeray was the only son of Richmond Thackeray, an administrator with the East India Company. Incidentally this well-known author was born in Calcutta in 1811. (1852), set in the early 18th-century, has been filmed by Stanley Kubrick (The Luck of Barry Lydon) and Mira Nair (Vanity Fair). English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England and The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. “Those who know the English colonies abroad know that we carry with us our pride, pills, prejudices, Harvey-sauces, cayenne peppers and other Lares, making a little Britain wherever we settle down…” That’s what William Makepeace Thackeray says in The Vanity Fair.
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