In which novel by Thackeray does the character 'Blanche Amory' appear?
The Adventures of Philip The Adventures of Philip The Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World: Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By (1861–62) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. It was the last novel Thackeray completed, and harks back to several of his previous ones, involving as it does characters from "A Shabby Genteel Story" and being, like "The Newcomes", narrated by the title character of his "Pendennis". In recent years it has not found as much favour from either readers or critics as Thackeray's early novels. Philip Firmin, son of Dr. Brand Firmin and
William Makepeace Thackeray also began work, never finished, on the novel later published as "A Shabby Genteel Story". In "The Luck of Barry Lyndon", a novel serialised in "Fraser's" in 1844, Thackeray explored the situation of an outsider trying to achieve status in high society, a theme he developed more successfully in "Vanity Fair" with the character of Becky Sharp, the artist's daughter who rises nearly to the heights by manipulating the other characters. Thackeray is probably best known now for "Vanity Fair". In contrast, his large novels from the period after "Vanity Fair", which were once described by Henry James as examples