Male : Novelist & ilustrator. Journalist all his life, having lost most of his money gambling. Contributed to Punch and edited 'Cornhill'. Married Isabella Shawe in 1836, but she went mad in the 1840s. Had an unfortunate love affair with his best friend's wife, Jane Brookfield.

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Calcutta, India

Date of Birth : 1811 Date of Death : 1863 Age : 52

Pseudonyms : Theophile Wagstaff. M A Titmarsh

Other Work : Barrister

Education : Charterhouse & Trinity College, Cambridge (only stayed one year)

1836-1840
Flore Et Zephyr (1836 J Mitchell) - by Theophile Wagstaff
The Paris Sketch Book (1840 John Macrone, London) - 2 vols. By Mr Titmarsh
An Essay on the Comic Genius of George Cruikshank (1840 Henry Hooper, London)

1841-1845
Comic Tales and Sketches (1841 Cunningham) - 2 vols by M A Titmarsh
Major Gahagan (1841 Cunningham)
The Second Funeral of Napoleon and The Chronicle of the Drum
(1841 Cunningham) - 2 vols by M A Titmarsh
The Irish Sketch Book (1843 Chapman & Hall) - by M A Titmarsh. 2 vols
(1857 London)

1846-1850
Mrs Perkins' Ball (1847 Chapman & Hall) - by M A Titmarsh. Author
Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846 Chapman & Hall) - by M A Titmarsh
Vanity Fair : A Novel without a Hero (1848 Bradbury & Evans) - Author
[Filmed in 1935 as "Becky Sharp" and in 1932 as "Vanity Fair"]
Our Street (1848 Chapman & Hall) - by M A Titmarsh. Author
The Book of Snobs (1848 Punch Office) (1852 Appleton, NY) (1856 Bradbury & Evans)
Dr Birch and His Young Friends (1849 Chapman & Hall) - by M A Titmarsh. Author
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond
(1849 Bradbury & Evans) - 2 vols by M A Titmarsh
The History of Pendennis (1849-50 Bradbury & Evans) (1850 Harper) - 2 vols
Rebecca and Rowena : A Romance upon Romance (1850 Chapman & Hall)
- by M A Titmarsh. Richard Doyle
The Kicklebury's on the Rhine (1850 Smith, Elder) - by M A Titmarsh

1851-1855
The History of Henry Esmond Esq (1852 Smith, Elder) - 3 vols. 2500 copies (1852 Harper)
Men's Wives (1852 Appleton NY)
A Shabby Genteel Story (1852 Appleton NY) (1852)
Confessions of a Fitz-Boodle (1852 Appleton NY)
The Fatal Boots and Cox's Diary (1853 Bradbury & Evans)
Jeame's Diary (1853 Appleton NY)
The Yellowplush Papers (1853 Appleton NY)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1853 Appleton, NY) - 2 vols
Punch's Prize Novelists, The Fat Contributor, and Travels in London (1853 Appleton, NY)
- prec UK 1st
The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century (1853 Smith, Elder) (1853 Harper)
The Newcomes (1854-5 Bradbury & Evans) (1855 Harper) - 2 vols. Richard Doyle
The Rose and the Ring (1855 Smith, Elder) (1855 Harper) - by M A Titmarsh. Author
Miscellanies : Prose and Verse (1855-7 Bradbury & Evans) - 4 vols

1856-1860
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq of the Kingdom of Ireland (1856 Bradbury & Evans)
[Filmed in 1975]
Sketches and Travels in London (1856 Bradbury & Evans)
Novels by Eminent Hands, and Character Sketches (1856 Bradbury & Evans)
Christmas Books (1857 Chapman & Hall) - Author
The Virginians : A Tale of the Last Century (1858-9 Bradbury & Evans) - 2 vols (1859 Harper)
The Four Georges : Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court & Town Life (1860 Harper) (1861 Smith Elder)
Lovel the Widower (1860 Harper, NY) (1861 Smith Elder)

1861-1865
The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World (1862 Smith Elder) - 3 vols (1862 Harper)
Roundabout Papers (1863 Smith Elder) (1863 Harper)
Denis Duval (1864 Smith Elder) (1864 Harper)

1866-1870
Early and Late Papers, Hitherto Uncollected (1867 Ticknor & Fields) - edited by James T Fields
The Works (1869-86 Smith Elder) - 24 vols. Author

1871-1900
The Works (1874-6 Smith Elder) - 12 vols
Thackerayana : Notes & Anecdotes, illustrated by Hundreds of Sketches (1875 Chatto & Windus)
The Orphan of Pimlico : Sketches (1876)
Complete Works .. The Cambridge Edition (1881 Estes & Lauriat, Boston) - 20 vols
The Complete Poems (1884 White, Stokes & Allen NY)
A Collection of Letters of Thackeray 1847-1855 (1887 London) (1887 Scribner NY)
Sultan Stork and Other Stories & Sketches : Now First Collected (1887 George Redway, London)
Contributions to Punch, not Previously Reprinted (1889 Houghton Mifflin)
The Complete Works (1889 Houghton Mifflin) - 22 vols
Loose Sketches : An Eastern Adventure (1894 Frank T Sabin, London) - 500. frontis John Leech
The Complete Works (1898 Smith Elder) - 26 vols. Author and Richard Doyle
The Hitherto Unidentified Contributions to Punch : with a Complete Bibliography 1843-1848
(1900 Harper)

1901-1950
The Works (1901 Dent) - 30 vols. C E Brock
The Complete Works (1904 Harper NY) - 26 vols
The History of Henry Esmond (1905) - Hugh Thomson
The Oxford Thackeray (1908 OUP) - 17 vols
The Works .. with Biographical Introductions by His Daughter, Lady Ritchie
(1910 Smith Elder) - 26 vols
The Rose and the Ring (1911 Kegan Paul) - J R Monsell
Complete Works : Harry Furniss Centenary Edition (1911 London) - 20 vols
Vanity Fair (1913 Hodder & Stoughton) - Lewis Baumer
Vanity Fair (1931 Ltd Eds Club, by OUP, Oxford) - 2 vols. Daniel Jacomet
Vanity Fair (1931 Ltd Eds Club, by OUP, Oxford) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by John Austen
The Rose and the Ring (1942 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 Ltd Ed. Fritz Kredel
The Letters and Private Papers (Collected and Edited by Gordon N Ray)
(1945-6 Harvard UP) - 4 vols

After 1951
The Newcomes (1954 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Edward Ardizzone
The History of Henry Esmond Esq (1956 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Edward Ardizzone
The History of Pendennis (1961 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Charles W Stewart

READING
Richard H Shepherd : The Bibliography of Thackeray (1880 Elliot Stock, London)
Charles Plumtre Johnson : Hints to Collectors on Iriginal Editions of the Works of Thackeray
(1885 George Redway - 500) (1885 Redway - Large Paper Edition of 50)
Herman Merival & Frank T Marzials : Life of W M Thackeray (1891 Walter Scott)
Adolphus Alfred Jack : Thackeray - A Study (1895 Macmillan)
J G Wilson : Thackeray in the United States 1852-3, 1855-6 (1904 NY) - 2 vols
H S Van Duzer : A Thackeray Library (1919 PP, NY)
Lewis Melville : A Biography of W M Thackeray (1910 John Lane) - 2 vols
Lionel Stevenson : The Showman of Vanity Fair - The Life of William Makepeace Thackeray
(1947 NY)
Geoffrey Tillotson : Thackeray the Novelist (1954 CUP 22/6)
Gordon N Ray : Thackeray - The Uses of Adversity 1811-46 (1955 OUP)
Gordon N Ray : Thackeray - The Age of Wisdom 1847-63 (1958 OUP)
Peter Carey : Thackeray - Prodigal Genius (1977 Faber)
John Buchanan-Brown : The Illustrations of William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1979 David & Charles)
Michael M Clarke : Thackeray and Women (1995 N Illinois UP $30)
Edgar F Harden : Thackeray the Writer - From Journalism to Vanity Fair
(1998 Macmillan £42.50)
D J Taylor : Thackeray (1999 Chatto & Windus £25)