William Makepeace Thackeray
Thackeray was not less an intense lover of London than was Dickens,
though in as different a fashion as his method of depicting character; and the
range of his London localities was far more restricted.
He sketched the men and women of Society, among whom he lived, with such fidelity
that we seem to have met them some time or other in our life's journey; but the
principal characters on which the fame of Dickens rests,
hardly give us that impression.
No one ever thinks he saw a Pickwick, a Sam Weller, a Quilp, or a Joe Bagstock,
yet they are as immortal as any character sketched by Thackeray.
Barry Lyndon
In this novel, of which Thackeray had a high opinion, we find
Barry Lyndon, Esq., leading to the altar at St. George's, Hanover Square, Honoria,
the widow of the Right Hon. Sir Charles Lyndon, K.B., the ceremony being performed
by the Rev. Samuel Runt, her ladyship's chaplain.
A magnificent ball and supper was afterwards given at their house in Berkeley
Square.
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