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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray, detail of an oil painting by Samuel Laurence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Makepeace Thackeray published his novel Vanity Fair in monthly installments from 1847 to 1848. This work marked the first time Thackeray published a novel under his own name, adopting a serial format that had been used successfully by Charles Dickens.123