Editing William Makepeace Thackeray (section)

===Professional journalist===
Thackeray now began "writing for his life", as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for ''[[Fraser's Magazine]]'', a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued [[conservative]] publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, ''[[Catherine (Thackeray novel)|Catherine]]'' and ''[[The Luck of Barry Lyndon]]''. Between 1837 and 1840, he also reviewed books for ''[[The Times]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Gary |last=Simons |year=2007 |title=Thackeray's contributions to ''The Times'' |journal=Victorian Periodicals Review |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=332–354|doi=10.1353/vpr.2008.0002 |s2cid=163798912 }}</ref> 

He was also a regular contributor to ''[[The Morning Chronicle]]'' and ''The Foreign Quarterly Review''. Later, through his connection to the illustrator [[John Leech (caricaturist)|John Leech]], he began writing for the newly created magazine ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', in which he published ''The Snob Papers'', later collected as ''[[The Book of Snobs]]''. This work popularised the modern meaning of the word "snob".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dabney |first=Ross H. |date=March 1980 |title=Review: ''The Book of Snob'' by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Sutherland |journal=Nineteenth-Century Fiction |volume=34 |number=4 |pages=456–462, 455 |doi=10.2307/2933542 |jstor=2933542}}</ref> 

Thackeray was a regular contributor to ''Punch'' between 1843 and 1854.<ref name=Gray-2013-01-23>{{cite web |first=Peter |last=Gray |date=23 January 2013  |title=''Punch'' and the Great Famine |website=History Ireland (historyireland.com) |department=18th–19th century history |url=https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/punch-and-the-great-famine-by-peter-gray/ |access-date=17 July 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Crowe-Thackeray 1845.jpg|thumb|left|Thackeray portrayed by [[Eyre Crowe (painter)|Eyre Crowe]], 1845]]