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REBECCA AND ROWENA

REBECCA AND ROWENA

By WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
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A satire of Victorian admiration for all things medieval, this early work by Thackeray is decidedly contrary - a self-confessed 'middle-aged novel' that begins where most novels end: with marriage. Rebecca and Rowena calls into question the ending of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, exploring the miserable marriage of Sir Wilfred to the 'icy, faultless, prim' Rowena. In an irreverent and theatrical plot, in which the dead come back to life, marriage is exposed as really quite dull, and imperialism is mocked mercilessly, Thackeray ridiculously reunites Ivanhoe with his first love, Rebecca, claiming they were wrongly separated in the earlier novel.

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About the Author

Most famous for Vanity Fair, his first major novel, William Makepeace Thackeray was an important literary figure in nineteenth-century England, both as an author and as a journalist and columnist. Matthew Sweet, author of Inventing The Victorians, has been film critic of The Independent on Sunday, a columnist for The Big Issue, and a director's assistant at the RSC.

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