Newcomes

In the 'Newcomes' Thackeray drew a character in Colonel Newcome, to whom was given the highest of literary honours, that of being spoken of apart from the book -- I mean in the way that people speak of Micawber or

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Patrick Braybrooke

Here, indeed, is very little of the gorilla whom we formerly knew: his ferocity is greatly abated; he only once beats his breast and roars; he does not twist gun-barrels; his domestic habits are much simplified; his appearance here is relatively as unimportant as Mr. Pendennis's in the "Newcomes"; he is a deposed hero; and Mr. Du Chaillu pushes on to Ashango-Land without him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

Thackeray is the first to publish a work using the term in his novel, The "Newcomes" in the mid 19th century.

FrontPage Magazine F. Swemson 2010

Thackeray's "Newcomes"); Richard Lalor Sheil, the great parliamentary orator; Sir Thomas Wyse, a well-known and successful diplomat of the last century; Chief Baron Woulfe of the Irish Court of Exchequer, the first Catholic to be elevated to the Irish Bench, and Judge Nicholas

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

In Thackeray's "Newcomes," the writer had some reminiscences of a place like Eatanswill, for we are told of the rival newspapers, "The Newcome

Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

Two years later he got his own back when, illustrating his friend Thackeray's novel The Newcomes, he gave Lord Airlie's features to the worthless Scottish Lord Farintosh (a surname later appropriated for a client of Sherlock Holmes in "The Speckled Band").

'The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: 2007

He used to rave about the Newcomes to me, as we were riding home from hunting.

The Newcomes 2006

The Newcomes are honourable: the Newcomes are wealthy: but distinguished — no.

The Newcomes 2006

“And who is poor dear Mrs. Mason” asks Mr. Pendennis, as yet but imperfectly acquainted with the history of the Newcomes.

The Newcomes 2006

But you, with your whole wide world of fops and fools, of good women and brave men, of honest absurdities and cheery adventurers: you who created the Steynes and Newcomes, the Beckys and Blanches, Captain Costigan and F. B., and the Chevalier Strong — all that host of friends imperishable — you must survive with Shakespeare and Cervantes in the memory and affection of men.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006