In 1862, she married a Thackeray cousin, a young officer with the Victoria Cross, Edward Thackeray, and went out to India,--where she died.
In 1854, the year in which _The Newcomes_ came out, Thackeray had broken his close alliance with _Punch_.

In December of that year there appeared from his pen an article in _The Quarterly_ on _John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character_.

It is a rambling discourse on picture-illustration in general, full of interest, but hardly good as a criticism,--a portion of literary work for which he was not specially fitted.

In it he tells us how Richard Doyle, the artist, had given up his work for _Punch_, not having been able, as a Roman Catholic, to endure the skits which, at that time, were appearing in one number after another against what was then called Papal aggression.

The reviewer,--Thackeray himself,--then tells us of the secession of himself from the board of brethren.
"Another member of Mr.Punch's cabinet, the biographer of _Jeames_, the author of _The Snob Papers_, resigned his functions, on account of Mr.
Punch's assaults upon the present Emperor of the French nation, whose anger Jeames thought it was unpatriotic to arouse." How hard it must be for Cabinets to agree! This man or that is sure to have some pet conviction of his own, and the better the man the stronger the conviction! Then the reviewer went on in favour of the artist of whom he was specially speaking, making a comparison which must at the time have been odious enough to some of the brethren.