Some Aspects of Thackeray
Some Aspects of Thackeray
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Doyle's portrait of Fred. Bayham suggested For- ster's burly figure, but there, in spite of suggestions to the contrary, the resem- blance ends; though Gandish, the painter who kept an art-school in Newman Street, is stated by Mr. T. H. S. Escott to have had his prototype in "Professor" Percival Leigh's father, who had a drawing-school in the same neighbourhood. Lastly, must be mentioned Colonel Thomas Newcome, C. B. , who, like "Jos" Sedley and James Binnie, was the outcome of Thackeray's Angl...o-Indian connections: like them he stepped out of the Oriental Club in Han- over Square. After visiting that institu- tion when "The Newcomes" was appear- ing, a friend said to Thackeray, "I see where you got your Colonel. " "To be sure you would, " said the novelist, "only I had to angelicise the 'old boys a little. " Mr. Alexander F. Baillie, the historian of the Oriental Club, indicates as an instance of Thackeray's Originals 177 Thackeray's carefulness, that in "Vanity Fair" when Jos returned for the first time from India, he drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented) ; he frequented the theatres, and so on; but that when the Collector of Boggley -Wallah came home in 1827, three years after the Oriental Club was founded, "his very first point, of course, was to become a member of the Club, where he spent his mornings in the company of his brother Indians, where he dined, or whence he brought home men to dine.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Doyle's portrait of Fred. Bayham suggested For- ster's burly figure, but there, in spite of suggestions to the contrary, the resem- blance ends; though Gandish, the painter who kept an art-school in Newman Street, is stated by Mr. T. H. S. Escott to have had his prototype in "Professor" Percival Leigh's father, who had a drawing-school in the same neighbourhood. Lastly, must be mentioned Colonel Thomas Newcome, C. B. , who, like "Jos" Sedley and James Binnie, was the outcome of Thackeray's Angl...o-Indian connections: like them he stepped out of the Oriental Club in Han- over Square. After visiting that institu- tion when "The Newcomes" was appear- ing, a friend said to Thackeray, "I see where you got your Colonel. " "To be sure you would, " said the novelist, "only I had to angelicise the 'old boys a little. " Mr. Alexander F. Baillie, the historian of the Oriental Club, indicates as an instance of Thackeray's Originals 177 Thackeray's carefulness, that in "Vanity Fair" when Jos returned for the first time from India, he drove his horses in the Park; he dined at the fashionable taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented) ; he frequented the theatres, and so on; but that when the Collector of Boggley -Wallah came home in 1827, three years after the Oriental Club was founded, "his very first point, of course, was to become a member of the Club, where he spent his mornings in the company of his brother Indians, where he dined, or whence he brought home men to dine.
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