Thackeray's The Shabby Genteel Story

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English, Mississippi State University

Note 18 to Chapter 2 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Thackeray did return to the story when be wrote The Adventures of Philip (1862).

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