Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thackeray” in chapter 1 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life:
...een well called the presumption of brains in the reader.
Note, for instance, the steady disappearance of the italic letter from the printed page.
Once used as freely as in an epistle from one of Thackeray 's fine ladies, it is now employed by careful writers almost wholly to indicate foreign words or book titles; a change in which Emerson and Hawthorne were conspicuous leaders.
There is a feeling tha...
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Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | Thackeray | 189 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
W. M. Thackeray | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
William Makepeace Thackeray | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
William M. Thackeray | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
F. St John Thackeray | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Richmond Thackeray | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Miss Thackeray | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Anne Thackeray | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Martin Thackeray | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.