Who were Thackeray's contemporaries?
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Answer
Thackeray and Dickens were both Victorian writers who were born in the early 1800s and died in the late 1800s. They were both very successful writers, and their works are still read today. They were both very different writers, however. Thackeray was a satirist, and his works often poked fun at the upper classes. Dickens was a social reformer, and his works often highlighted the plight of the poor.
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