Note 15 to Chapter 5 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.
Vanity Fair (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848), p. 50, line 11 up. Further references to this edition of Vanity Fair are made in the text. A detailed account of composition and revision and of publication variants can be found in my edition of the novel (New York: Garland, 1989).
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