THACKERAY CENTENARY.
' MEMORIAL EXHIBITION. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) / •' LONDON, July 1. Lord Rosebery opened tlie Thackeray Centenary Exhibition at Charterhouse with a brilliant analysis of the novelist's genius. (William Makepeace.Thackeray, the novelist, was born at Calcutta on July 18, 1811. When he was five years old,, his father, died, and he was sent to an aunt in England. At the age of eleven he was sent to school at Charterhouse, where he remained for six years. He afterwards travelled for two years, and started his literary career, which proved to l»e so, distinguished, in 1833. Thackeray was found dead in his .bed on the morning of Christmas Eve, 1863.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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110THACKERAY CENTENARY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10277, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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