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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Hannah Cullwick
To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dinah Mulock Craik
Kiss and Be Friends hopes for a rapprochement of England and Ireland; from an avowedly Irish position.
The question of Irishness figures frequently in DMC 's fiction, which both confirms and complicates the stereotyping of...
Family and Intimate relationships Blanche Warre Cornish
BWC 's younger brother Sir Richmond Ritchie married, in 1877, their cousin Anne Thackeray .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(10 August 1922): 14
Travel Blanche Warre Cornish
During their first years in this house they made frequent visits to Thackeray and his daughters Minny and Anny at 2 Palace Green, Kensington.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin.
55, 69, 76
Reception Sara Coleridge
SC 's friend and later memoirist Henry Reed argued that in her efforts to defend and preserve her father's works she demonstrated an amount of original thought and an affluence of learning, which, differently and...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC was a friend of Emily Faithfull , Geraldine Jewsbury , and Rosa Bonheur , and she knew Josephine Butler , Augusta Webster , Lady Battersea , Emily Pfeiffer , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , Helen Taylor
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
Other reviews were more complimentary. The Spectator judged both Not Wisely, but Too Well and Cometh Up as a Flower to be no more immoral than Jane Eyre, and said that they represented the...
Travel Rhoda Broughton
She continued to visit London up to the time of her death. On her last appearance there, in the winter of 1919-20, she held court in what had been Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's house in...
Intertextuality and Influence Rhoda Broughton
RB said that she was first inspired to write when she heard that Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's The Story of Elizabeth was the work of a girl not much older than herself.
Times. Times Publishing Company.
(7 June 1920): 17
Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB again visited the Smith s in London, where she met a number of young female writers, among others Anne Thackeray and Adelaide Procter .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
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Literary responses Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre has become a sensitive barometer of feminist criticism. With its author it became the focus of Victorian women critics, including Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Charlotte Mew . Virginia Woolf admired the poetry of...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray , according to his daughter Anne .
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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Arnold Bennett gave it very high praise. Of the passage in which Lucy Audley decides to try to murder Robert, he...
Residence Anna Letitia Barbauld
They lived in several successive places there: most famously, for their final decade at Hampstead, in Church Row (where Anne Thackeray Ritchie , making a pilgrimage to their house about 1880, claimed to have seen...
Publishing Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
She had already included an inset fairy story in L'Histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas, 1690, which did not reach English until 1699. For more than a century her name was often attached to individually...
Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
The British Library Catalogue ascribes this work to LAT 's very similarly-named stepmother. Deventer-Busken Huet also translated a work by Anne Thackeray Ritchie .

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