Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Four years later she was in Grindelwald in Switzerland, with Anne Thackeray Ritchie
and Leslie Stephen
.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
104-5
Textual Production
Adelaide Procter
She also took Anne Thackeray
on a tour of various concerns associated with the Society, which led Thackeray to produce her essay Toilers and Spinners in the Cornhill Magazine in 1861.
Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate.
27 n89
Literary responses
Christina Rossetti
Gabriel
anticipated critics when he described Commonplace as a prose tale . . . rather in the Austen
vein.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press.
2: 818
Contrasting Commonplace, and Other Short Stories with tawdry romance,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2223 (1870): 734
the...
Literary responses
Marie de Sévigné
For years MS
was ridiculed for her incorrect orthography, but in fact her unorthodox spelling was modern. It was that advocated by the reformers, participants in a movement to reduce the number of unphonetic letters...
The couple had three daughters: future novelist Anne
, born in 1837; Jane, who died at eight months; and finally Harriet Marian, or Minnie
, born in 1840.
Friends, Associates
William Makepeace Thackeray
WMT
was close to both of his surviving daughters, and was particularly proud when Anne
's first publication, the article Little Scholars, which appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine. He was a sociable...
Residence
Angela Thirkell
Angela Mackail grew up in the house rented by her parents, 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, next door to the Greyhound Tavern. Their landlady was the writer Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, who had grown...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anthony Trollope
The critical opinions he voices here are often cited. Chapter 13, entitled On English Novelists of the Present Day, gives first place to Thackeray
and second to George Eliot
. On her he voices...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sophie Veitch
SV
's Current Fiction despatches nine novels (all but one from 1885), but subordinates them to an over-arching critical position that novelists must have a clear, definite, and deliberately formed opinion as to the object...
Reception
Lucy Walford
After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW
decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Augusta Ward
Her selections are drawn from both written record and personal memory, interweaving public and private concerns and observations. Her sketches of individuals are often memorable, as in this glimpse: a small dishevelled figure, grey-headed, crouching...
Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
Of Leslie Stephen's relations, Virginia was closest to the writer Anne Thackeray Ritchie
(Minny Stephen's sister), and to Caroline Emelia Stephen
(Leslie's sister).
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
66-8, 75-8
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The one...
Textual Features
Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron
's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie
had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.