Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | A sister, Jane, born in July 1838, died at the age of nine months. ATR
's second sister, Harriet Marian
or Minny, who did survive, was three years her junior. ATR
tried to fill... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
lived with the Stephens
after their marriage, and while there became a friend of such literary figures as George Meredith
, Henry James
(who described her after an early encounter as exquisitely irrational)... |
Residence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Anne Thackeray and the widowed Leslie Stephen
, with whom she continued to live, moved to 11 Hyde Park Gate South, London. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 178 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | She was forty to his twenty-two. He left Cambridge and took the India Office job in order to marry her. Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, p. various pages. 171 |
Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | In the original Dictionary of National Biography, Leslie Stephen
accused CT
not only of inconsistency in switching her allegiance from Locke to Samuel Clarke, but also of being too obtuse to perceive her own... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | ST
's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes
,... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | |
Textual Production | Margaret Veley | The year following her death, MV
's only poetry collection was published (selected by Leslie Stephen
, and with his preface), as A Marriage of Shadows. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Residence | Margaret Veley | In London, MV
, in the words of Leslie Stephen
, became known to a much larger circle capable of sympathising with her literary tastes than could be found in the country town Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. xii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Veley | She followed these up with more poems and stories for various periodicals, particularly the Cornhill Magazine, where she received attention and encouragement from Leslie Stephen
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. x-xii |
Textual Production | Margaret Veley | According to Leslie Stephen
, MV
began this first novel as early as March 1872. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. ix |
Literary responses | Margaret Veley | Leslie Stephen
(in his later preface to posthumous work by MV
) commented that 'For Percival' had true literary distinction: a graceful, clear, and pointed style, a strong sense of humour and a keen perception... |
Literary responses | Margaret Veley | Leslie Stephen
's preface eloquently characterised MV
's strengths as a writer. As well as praising her true and unusual literary distinction as a novellist, Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. x |
Health | Virginia Woolf | Shortly after the death of her father
in May 1904, Virginia Stephen experienced a second and more serious nervous breakdown. She was nursed for nearly three months at the home of her friend Violet Dickinson |
Instructor | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf was educated at home. As a very young girl, she was tutored by her mother
in Latin, French, and history. When she was between thirteen and fifteen, her father
gave her lessons for... |
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