The Newcomes

28/01/2022 41h 34min

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Episode Synopsis

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The Book Of Snobs. It tells the story of a few generations of the Newcome family: their rise to respectability, marriages, love, and the culture in which they lived. The novel teaches the reader what it was like to live in Victorian England 
Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Language: English