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This author called the moral of Gulliver's Travels "horrible, shameful, unmanly, blasphemous," in his oft-quoted lecture on Swift asking readers to abstain from the novel's ending, arguing, "giant and great as this Dean is, I say we should hoot him." This writer conducted an intimate correspondence with Jane Brookfield, on whom he modeled two of his heroines. During the last years of his life, he served as the first editor of The Cornhill Magazine. This author was attacked in a column by Edmund Yates that triggered the "Garrick Club affair," which resulted in a nearly lifelong rift in his friendship with (*) Dickens. He concluded one of his novels with the questions "Which of us is happy in the world? Which of us has his desire, or having it, is satisfied?" This author, who often used the pseudonym Michael Angelo Titmarsh, was catapulted to fame by the publication of a "Novel Without a Hero" following a conniving friend of Amelia Sedley. For 10 points, name this Victorian novelist who created Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair.
This author called the moral of Gulliver's Travels "horrible, shameful, unmanly, blasphemous," in his oft-quoted lecture on Swift asking readers to abstain from the novel's ending, arguing, "giant and great as this Dean is, I say we should hoot him."
William Makepeace Thackeray