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Swinburne and Thackeray’s The Newcomes

Swinburne and Thackeray’s The Newcomes Swinburne and Thackeray’s The Newcomes CATHERINE MAXWELL n The Home Life of Swinburne (1922), Clara Watts-Dunton, widow of ISwinburne’s close friend and latter-day guardian Walter Theodore Watts- Dunton, details the domestic habits and routine of the poet as she observed them at The Pines, Putney, after her marriage in November 1905. Clara Watts-Dunton’s biography is sometimes mocked for its banality, but none- theless remains a valuable record of Swinburne’s last years, providing useful information about his writing habits, friendships, literary and other tastes. Moreover, Clara’s seemingly artless chatty style belies the fact that she was almost aware of certain chapters in the poet’s private history—something she hints at obliquely in the following comment: He was, I remember, extremely fond of Thackeray. “The Newcomes” was one of his favourite novels, and Ethel Newcome was his favourite heroine in fiction. Ethel, I have always thought, must have appealed to him as resembling some member of his own family, perhaps one of his sisters. When Swinburne first read Thackeray’s The Newcomes is not clear. He was sixteen when the first monthly number of the novel came out in serial form in October 1853, with the last number appearing in August 1855. He http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

Swinburne and Thackeray’s The Newcomes

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Victorian Poetry , Volume 47 (4) – Jan 15, 2010
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Swinburne and Thackeray’s The Newcomes CATHERINE MAXWELL n The Home Life of Swinburne (1922), Clara Watts-Dunton, widow of ISwinburne’s close friend and latter-day guardian Walter Theodore Watts- Dunton, details the domestic habits and routine of the poet as she observed them at The Pines, Putney, after her marriage in November 1905. Clara Watts-Dunton’s biography is sometimes mocked for its banality, but none- theless remains a valuable record of Swinburne’s last years, providing useful information about his writing habits, friendships, literary and other tastes. Moreover, Clara’s seemingly artless chatty style belies the fact that she was almost aware of certain chapters in the poet’s private history—something she hints at obliquely in the following comment: He was, I remember, extremely fond of Thackeray. “The Newcomes” was one of his favourite novels, and Ethel Newcome was his favourite heroine in fiction. Ethel, I have always thought, must have appealed to him as resembling some member of his own family, perhaps one of his sisters. When Swinburne first read Thackeray’s The Newcomes is not clear. He was sixteen when the first monthly number of the novel came out in serial form in October 1853, with the last number appearing in August 1855. He

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