Thackerayan

There are, it will not surprise you, some honourable women and a few men who call you a cynic; who speak of “the withered world of Thackerayan satire;” who think your eyes were ever turned to the sordid aspects of life — to the mother-inlaw who threatens to “take away her silver bread-basket;” to the intriguer, the sneak, the termagant; to the Beckys, and Barnes Newcomes, and Mrs. Mackenzies of this world.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

A series of episodes, they observe, supply the place of a plot in _The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn_; the central motive of _The Hillyars and the Burtons_ is an impossible story of a young woman's self-sacrifice; and the Thackerayan mannerisms in

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

Hooley_, an obtrusively Irish eccentricity of Thackerayan extraction,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 Various

In The Newcomes and its successors the old Thackerayan display seems essentially the same as ever, still the familiar, easy-going, intimate outpouring, with all the well-known inflexions of Thackeray's voice and the humours of his temperament; certainly Pendennis and Esmond and George Warrington and

The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922

By this time his readers had become familiar with his machinery and his materials - his elbowing suffragettes, his tea-swilling London uplifters, his smattering of quasi-science, his intellectualized adulteries, his Thackerayan asides, his text-book paragraphs, his journalistic raciness - and all these things had thus begun to lose the blush of their first charm.

Prejudices : first series, 1919

Whether Davis could or would have written a novel of the higher rank is a useless question now; he himself, who was a critic of his own work without illusions or affectation, used to say that he could not; but it is certain that in the early part of "Captain Macklin" he displayed a power really Thackerayan in kind.

Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis Davis appreciations: Various 1917

I am thus digressing, in obsolete Thackerayan fashion, to twaddle about love-matches alone.

The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

But relatively to the other Dickensian productions this book may be called Thackerayan.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

At no time could any books by Dickens have been called Thackerayan.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905

But as long as the Thackerayan platform of gentility stood firm all this was, comparatively speaking, concealed.

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905