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

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

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

"The Brontë sisters, painted by their brother Branwell, c. 1825. From left to right are Anne, Emily and Charlotte, with a painted-out space in the background which probably once held a self-portrait of Branwell himself" (Wilks, 101).

"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.…

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

Map of the Glass Town Confederacy, Drawn by Branwell Brontë at Fourteen as a Folding Frontispiece to "History of the Young Men," 1831 (Ashley Library in the British Museum)

"Some of the little books made and written by the Brontë children. Only examples of Charlotte's and Branwell's have come to light. The books average a mere two inches in height and one and a half inches in width. They are written in almost…

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

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