The old and the new alike fed her imagination-Scott, the elder dumas, the King Arthur romances, Stanley Weyman, Anthony Hope, Hallie Erminie Rives, Laura Jean Libbey, Bertha M. Clay, Mrs. Alexander-all were fish for her net, tabloids for her mental digestion.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
But Thackeray did not succeed in expressing the whole of himself in the romantic vein; perhaps because he did not cultivate it from the start like Scott and dumas.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
As writers of the second order he mentions Shakespeare, Scott, dumas, Dickens, Ruskin, Carlyle, and he would no doubt include writers like Macaulay and Holmes.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell