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"Many believe that Emily Brontë chose this location as the setting of Wuthering Heights" (Wilks, 72).

Image of "Club Snobs," two well-dressed men talking over wine from Chapter XLVIII of William Makepeace Thackeray's The Book of Snobs (1848)

Sketch by William Makepeace Thackeray called "Railroad Speculators," appearing in Punch in 1845, with text: "How many hundred shares have you wrote for?"

Book cover to 2004 Penguin Books edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair, to advertise the 2004 film adaptation directed by Mira Nair

Cover page to William Makepeace Thackeray's serialized novel, Vanity Fair, published as a whole in 1848.

Publicity still of Laurence Olivier for the 1939 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights

"The scene is fairly certainly identifiable as Maidenhead railway bridge, across the Thames between Taplow and Maidenhead. The bridge, which was begun on Brunel's design in 1837 and finished in 1839, has two main arches of brick, very wide and flat.…

A review of Dombey and Son by John Forster in the Literary Examiner, 28 Oct. 1848.

Sketch by Dickens' illustrator, Phiz, of Mrs. Tox introducing Polly Toodle (Paul's nurse-to-be) and her family to Mr. Dombey.

Chapters 14-16: Chapter 14. Paul grows more and more old-fashioned, and goes home for the holidays -- Chapter 15. Amazing artfulness of Captain Cuttle, and a new pursuit for Walter Gay -- Chapter 16. What the waves were always saying