William Makepeace Thackeray, author of ‘Vanity Fair’, was born in Calcutta on 18 July 1811. The Archive contains 100s of stories about Thackeray, including some fascinating reports that offer a terrific insight into his character. As we love reading about quarrels between famous writers, here’s a newspaper report on a writers’ feud that Thackeray had with Edmund Yates – oh, and we love the fact that Charles Dickens became involved in this feud as a peace-maker. Here’s another blog post about …