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
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...
Textual Production Anne Evans
It included a memorial by Anne Thackeray Ritchie .
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
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
Textual Production Adelaide Kemble
AK is believed to have written many songs, but to have left them unpublished.
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.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie saw some of her letters and printed some passages from her diary of her travels abroad.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray.
68-70
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 .
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...
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...
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...
Travel Vernon Lee
VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning
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.
639-43
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...
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
Travel Margaret Oliphant
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.
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