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Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created Punch magazine, where he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularized the modern meaning of the word "snob." Meanwhile tragedy struck in his personal life as his wife succumbed to depression after the birth of their third child. Finding he could get no work done at home, he spent more and more time away, unt | feedboo is The History of Henry Esmond Thackeray William Makepeace Published 1852 Categorie s Fiction Historical Source http 1 About Thackeray Thackeray an only child was born in Calcutta India where his father Richmond Thackeray 1 September 1781 - 13 September 1815 held the high rank of secretary to the board of revenue in the British East India Company. His mother Anne Becher 1792-1864 second daughter of John Harman Becher a writer for the East India Company and his wife Harriet married Richmond Thackeray on 13 October 1810 after being sent to India in 1809. She was sent abroad after being told that the man she loved Henry Carmichael-Smyth had died. This was not true but her family wanted a better marriage for her than with Carmichael-Smyth a military man. The truth was unexpectedly revealed in 1812 when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited to dinner the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth. Richmond Thackeray born at South Mimms went to India at the age of sixteen to assume his duties as writer. By 1804 he had fathered a daughter by a native mistress the mother and daughter being named in his will. Such liaisons being common among gentlemen of the East India Company it formed no bar to his courting and marrying Anne Becher. After Richmond s death Henry Carmichael-Smyth married Anne in 1818 and they returned to England the next year. William had been sent to England earlier at the age of five with a short stopover at St. Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School where he was a close friend of John Leech. He disliked Charterhouse parodying it in his later fiction as Slaughterhouse. Illness in his last year there during which he reportedly grew to his full height of 6 3 postponed his matriculation at Trinity College Cambridge until February 1829. Never too keen on academic studies he left the University in 1830. He travelled for some time on the .