Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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Standard Name: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
Birth Name: Anne Isabella Thackeray
Married Name: Anne Isabella Ritchie
Titled: Lady Anne Isabella Ritchie
Nickname: Anny
Nickname: Tottie
Nickname: Pussy
Nickname: Fat
Pseudonym: A I Titmarsh
ATR produced, mostly during the later nineteenth century, twenty-one books of fiction, essays, and literary memoirs.
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.
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Her biographical prefaces to her famous father 's novels are best known, but she was also a major biographer and critic of others, particularly women. Her fiction, which regularly treats gender inequality and limited female options, has not been given its due.
Black and white photograph of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, seated and staring peacefully off into the distance. She is wearing a white dress with puffed shoulders, long sleeves, details of lace, ruffles, and a flower at the neckline, and a pearl button fastening the waistband. She has a stack of pearl necklaces around her neck, her dark hair is pulled into a bun and fastened with a metal pin, and she holds flowers in her hands.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Anne Evans
She worked as an amanuensis for Thackeray , transcribing his The Rose and the Ring. She maintained a lifelong fondness for him, and on his death in 1863 she composed an ode, full of...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Evans
Her loving remembrance of her father was, in the words of Anne Thackeray Ritchie , one which breaks down the barriers . . . even of death itself.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, p. vii - xxix.
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Residence Anne Evans
This was her last home. She and her mother remained there after her sister married. Her life here was retired but far from isolated: their home was continually filled with a procession of visiting family...
Health Anne Evans
Often she was unable to leave her room, or even her bed, but she remained cheerful, telling Anne Thackeray Ritchie that she could honestly say [she] was content.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, p. vii - xxix.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, p. vii - xxix.
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Textual Production Anne Evans
Throughout her life AE continually composed letters, witty definitions, and epigrams. Some of her early writing was included in Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's Preface to the posthumously published Poems and Music. She expressed through...
Textual Production Anne Evans
It included a memorial by Anne Thackeray Ritchie .
Literary responses Anne Evans
The Academy reviewed Poems and Music positively, although a large portion of the review was devoted to Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's Preface. The reviewer found that [i]n the sonnet Miss Evans succeeds very well...
Textual Features Margaret Forster
The book is therefore episodic and rambling, and it aims to bypass any retrospective consciousness of its subject's literary significance. Similarly, he writes of his daughter Anny with no sense of the future author or...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
The quality of EG 's fiction was recognised early by her contemporaries. George Eliot exempted her, along with Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Brontë , from the ranks of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, noting...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Anne Thackeray Ritchie , herself a biographer of an eminent Victorian, paid tribute to the the book thus: I can think of no other instance of one woman of mark doing so much honour and...
Friends, Associates Thomas Hardy
His many literary acquaintances in London included Sir Leslie Stephen , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , and Adelaide Procter .
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin.
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Reception Sarah Orne Jewett
Jewett wrote both diaries and letters from an early age, and was an avid reader. Reminiscing, she said she remembered thinking that if I could write just as Miss Thackeray did in her charming stories...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
Soon after her marriage AK gave up singing except in drawing-rooms and at village gatherings. Her writing was in some sense a substitute for her singing, with the many songs she composed forming a kind...
Friends, Associates Adelaide Kemble
The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton , sculptor Hattie Hosmer , authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé , Henry Greville , William Makepeace Thackeray , and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning . She...

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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Richardson Evans. Lord Amherst and the British Advance Eastwards to Burma. Clarendon, 1894.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Madame de Sévigné. W. Blackwood, 1881.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Miss Angel. Smith, Elder, 1875.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Miss Williamson’s Divagations. Smith, Elder, 1881.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Mrs. Dymond. Smith, Elder, 1885.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Mrs. Dymond. B. Tauchnitz, 1886.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Old Kensington. Smith, Elder, 1873.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Old Kensington. Smith, Elder, 1891.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. “Out of the World”. Cornhill Magazine, Vol.
8
, pp. 366 - 84; 449.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Out of the World and Other Tales. B. Tauchnitz, 1876.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. “Preface”. A Week in a French Country-House, Smith, Elder, 1903, p. i - xlv.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning. Macmillan, 1892.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. “Reminiscences”. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends, T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Thackeray and His Daughter. Editor Fuller, Hester Helen Thackeray, Harper and Brothers, 1924.
Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d’ et al. The Fairy Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy. Translators Macdonell, Annie and Miss Lee, Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. The Story of Elizabeth. B. Tauchnitz, 1863.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Esther Schwartz-McKinzie. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington. Thoemmes Press, 1995.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. AMS Press, 1988.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. The Village on the Cliff. Smith, Elder, 1867.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. The Village on the Cliff. Smith, Elder, 1875.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. “Toilers and Spinsters”. Cornhill Magazine, Vol.
3
, pp. 318-31.