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Foreword by Matthew Sweet; Rebecca and Rowena; Biographical note

About the Author

Most famous for Vanity Fair, his first major novel, William Makepeace Thackeray was an important literary figure in nineteenth-century England, both as an author and as a journalist and columnist. Matthew Sweet, author of Inventing The Victorians, has been film critic of The Independent on Sunday, a columnist for The Big Issue, and a director's assistant at the RSC.