Chapter 2
Thackeray, portrait of Isabella and Anny Thackeray, ca. 1837. Private collection. Image may not be reproduced without permission. |
Thackeray. Isabella and Anny Thackeray. Watercolor, ca. 1837. When his oldest daughter Anny was very young, Thackeray wrote to his mother, “[Anny] is delightful and that’s the fact, her voice drives all the cares out of one’s head – if one had any – not that I have, it seems to me often quite wrong to be happy when, according to Cocker, I should be perfectly cast down at my gloomy position and poverty….Missy’s little voice I can hear caroling in the parlour. Isabella comes to pay me a visit every half-minute or so, and I am not as angry as I ought to be.” Private collection. |