ABSTRACT

Thackeray became a frequenter of Clubs. He had long been a member of the Garrick, which then had its Club-house in King Street, Covent Garden, the new building in Garrick Street not being completed until a year after his death. Thackeray was elected a member of the Reform Club in April 1840, being proposed by Mr. Martin Thackeray, and seconded by Mr. Henry Webbe. There is an interesting description of Thackeray at this Club in Cassell’s Magazine (June 1897), by Sir Wemyss Reid, in an article called Some Club Ghosts. Thackeray’s name appears on the roll of the Club as a barrister,’ but he was elected as the author of Vanity Fair, Pendeunis, and other well-known works of fiction. In later years—about November 1861—he joined ‘Our Club,’ which had been founded by Douglas Jerrold.