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- Although Dickens and Thackeray were always cordial, their relationship grew strained over minor literary disputes. Partisan friends and associates fanned the flames until the relationship between Dickens and Thackeray erupted into a bitter feud in 1858.
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Dec 2, 2020 · For nearly seventy years there has existed among biographers of Dickens what might almost be termed an official version of the so-called Garrick Club affair, that provided by Edmund Yates in his Recollections and Experiences of 1884.
By the mid-1830s, when the callow young Thackeray was knocking at the doors of literary London, Dickens was already in possession of the stage, the established star of the coming generation and very much the man to be measured against.
Dickens and Thackeray had been on friendly terms since first meeting in 1836, although Thackeray, by his own standards, could never quite view Dickens as a gentleman. Their friendly relationship lasted until the publication of Vanity Fair , when Thackeray observed that Dickens “can't forgive me for my success with Vanity Fair ; as if there ...
Jun 14, 2022 · The two quarreled when Edmund Yates, a young protege of Dickens and a fellow member of the Garrick Club, published harsh criticisms of Thackeray. Thackeray also made off-the-cuff remarks about Dickens' very ugly separation from his wife Catherine in the late 1850s.
The reprobates who figure in Thackeray’s pages are the men of a bygone age, the Steynes and Colchicums of the regency and reign of George IV. Dickens, while always perfectly clean, did not rise...
In the spring of 1863, Thackeray, who had become close to Dickens’s daughter Kate, repaired his relationship with his literary rival. “We have been foolish long enough,” Thackeray told him, holding out his hand, which Dickens “grasped...very cordially.”
