Title: The Virginians
Subtitle: a tale of the last century
First published: 1858
Description: In a late Eighteenth Century setting, between fashionable London and backward Virginia, two twin brothers from the nobility spend their formative period trying to flee a domineering dowager mother in different ways--the older a saturnine, melancholy character, the younger an easy going type. Both, in their own way, succeed; but both reach old age feeling themselves equally swindled. The usual Thackeray touch of good humoured aristocratic melancholy aimed at bourgeois philisteism.
Subjects: Americans, Brothers, Fiction, History, Inheritance and succession, Twins, United States French and Indian War, 1755-1763, Great britain, fiction, Virginia, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, United states, history, french and indian war, 1755-1763, fiction, Brothers, fiction, Twins, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general
Places: England, Great Britain, United States, Virginia
Time periods: 18th century, French and Indian War, 1755-1763, George II, 1727-1760, Revolution, 1775-1763, Revolution, 1775-1783