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Thackeray's Contributions to the Times

Many editions of Thackeray's writings have been represented as his "Complete Works," yet all of these editions have either ignored or given meager representation to Thackeray's journalistic contributions to the Times. During portions of 1837-1840 Thackeray wrote as many as five contributions per month for the Times and considered his literary criticism for that paper a primary source of his livelihood.2 Despite the continued interest in other aspects of Thackeray's work, these early critical reviews remain relatively unexamined and unreprinted and their significance unexplored. One reason for this gap in Thackeray scholarship has been the difficulty of article identification and attribution: reviews in the Times were published anonymously, no master logs matching article to author have been found, and the articles themselves typically offer fewer clues for literary detectives than do Thackeray's works of satiric fiction. Thackeray himself never collected and republished his Times critical reviews. Only in 1888, some 25 years after Thackeray's death, did Charles Johnson first attribute a handful of Times critical reviews to Thackeray, and the currently most comprehensive academic edition of Thackeray's works, the 1908 Oxford Thackeray, includes just a half dozen of Thackeray's Times critical articles.3