The History of Henry Esmond

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The History of Henry Esmond

First edition title page
Author	William Makepeace Thackeray
Original title	The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
Language	English
Genre	Historical fiction
Publisher	Smith, Elder & Co.
Publication date	1852
Publication place	England
Media type	Print
Pages	464
Followed by	The Virginians

The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England – specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration – and utilises characters both real (but dramatised) and imagined. It weaves its central character into a number of events such as the Glorious Revolution, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Hamilton–Mohun Duel and the Hanoverian Succession.