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
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.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
75-6
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships William Makepeace Thackeray
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...
Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
He had ties to writers Anne Ogle , Mary Louisa Molesworth , Ouida , and Mathilde Blind . His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle , James Anthony Froude
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...
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.
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Contrasting Commonplace, and Other Short Stories with tawdry romance,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2223 (1870): 734
the...
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
Friends, Associates Margaret Oliphant
MO met her fellow-writer Anne Thackeray Ritchie at Interlaken in Switzerland, and began the last of her really intimate and lasting female friendships.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
19-20
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Timeline

19 July 1870: Napoleon III declared war on Prussia, initiating...

National or international item

19 July 1870

Napoleon III declared war on Prussia, initiating the Franco-Prussian War.

1880: Ten years after the author's death, Anne...

Women writers item

1880

Ten years after the author's death, Anne Evans : Poems and Music appeared with a memorialpreface by her friend Anne Thackeray Ritchie .

July 1889: Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the...

Building item

July 1889

Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the Fortnightly Review to counter Mary Augusta Ward 's Appeal Against Female Suffrage in the previous month's Nineteenth Century.

Texts

Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen. Smith, Elder, 1883.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Kemble, Adelaide et al. A Week in a French Country-House. Smith, Elder, 1903.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters. Editors Bloom, Abigail Burnham and John Maynard, Ohio State University Press, 1994.
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, 1994, p. various pages.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1899, p. various pages.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and William Makepeace Thackeray. “Biographical Introductions”. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Centenary Biographical Edition, Smith, Elder, 1911, p. various pages.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Smith, Elder, 1908.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Bluebeard’s Keys and Other Stories. Smith, Elder, 1874.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Memoirs. Macmillan, 1894.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Chapters from Some Unwritten Memoirs. Harper and Brothers, 1895.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Da Capo and Other Tales. B. Tauchnitz, 1880.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Five Old Friends. B. Tauchnitz, 1875.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Frederick Waller. Five Old Friends; and, A Young Prince. Smith, Elder, 1868.
MacCarthy, Desmond et al. “Foreword”. Thackeray’s Daughter, Euphorion Books, 1951, pp. 5-15.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From an Island: A Story and Some Essays. B. Tauchnitz, 1877.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From the Porch. Smith, Elder, 1913.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From the Porch. Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. “Introduction”. Our Village, Macmillan, 1902, p. vii - liii.
Schwartz-McKinzie, Esther, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Introduction”. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington, Thoemmes Press, 1995, p. iii - xxxii.
MacKay, Carol Hanbery et al. “Introduction: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, AMS Press, 1988.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray, 1924.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. “Little Scholars”. Cornhill Magazine, Vol.
1
, pp. 549-59.