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.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol.
31
, No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15.
111
Publishing
Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
advised an artist named George Baxter
on scenes to engrave as woodcuts for a Whittaker
edition of Our Village, probably 1835.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 157
Further complete editions, selections, and translations into many languages followed...
Textual Features
Charlotte Mew
The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie
's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men.
Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me.
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
369-70
As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...
Education
Amy Levy
At some time during her girlhood AL
listed her favourite poets as all men, while her favourite prose writers included Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, George Eliot
, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie
.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
The review by E. V. Lucas
in the Times Literary Supplement set out (with some slight rhetorical camouflage) to insinuate both that Edgeworth did not fully deserve her place in this distinguished series, and that...
Textual Features
Marghanita Laski
The book aims at literary recuperation. Here ML
blends analysis with celebration, but she recalls her marginalised writers primarily to raise questions about the present state of writing for children. She says that her subjects...
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...
AK
and her husband kept up the Kemble family tradition with private theatricals. She also continued to attend the London theatre: when she first saw on stage a young unknown called Henry Irving
, she...
Publishing
Adelaide Kemble
It had appeared in the Cornhill Magazine before being published in volume form.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
wrote a preface for a re-issue of 1902, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton
.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Texts
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.