"As for "tickers", (…) her apartments were alive with their clicking. Tor, happening to mention one night that hers, (…) went ill, on the very next morning there came to her a little bijou marked Leroy (…) and another signed Breguet, which was covered with pearls (...)."William Makepeace ThackerayVanity Fair, 1847-1848
Romanziere e autore di satire inglese, William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) deve la sua celebrità principalmente a La fiera delle vanità (1847-1848), un romanzo che descrive la società inglese durante il periodo delle Guerre Napoleoniche.
