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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Joseph Parkes
, Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | Felix Charlemont fights in the Napoleonic wars, and one battle scene verbally prefigures Thackeray
's account of Waterloo in Vanity Fair: The roar of artillery and musketry continued long after Charlemont fell; at length... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Porter | JP
's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure... |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert
still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her. |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | Kemble describes AP
in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 499 |
| Health | Adelaide Procter | AP
's health was poor from an early age. A letter from William Thackeray
describes her at the age of fourteen as vomiting basins of blood. She went to Italy for a year in 1853-54... |
| Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | Here AP
's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:... |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
| Literary responses | Mary Ann Radcliffe | The later currency of this book is shown by Thackeray
's romance-obsessed schoolboy character in The Newcomes, who draws illustrations to it and is frightened by them himself. McMaster, Rowland D. Thackeray’s Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The Newcomes. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 59 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Mary Rathbone | The Athenæum noted that the first volume was printed and bound in seventeenth-century style so well that had we stumbled on it in some old library, we should have rejoiced over a newly discovered literary... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Rigby | While she held Jane Eyre in contempt, she showed general admiration for Becky Sharp, protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair, calling her wonderfully clever, and amusing, and accomplished, and intelligent. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Review: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Vanity Fair</span>; <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Jane Eyre</span>; <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Governesses’ Benevolent Institution: Report for 1847</span>”;. Quarterly Review, Vol. 84 , pp. 153-85. 157 |
| Travel | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Visiting Paris with her sister and father
, Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 54 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 54 |
| Occupation | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | As they reached adulthood, ATR
and her sister came increasingly to compensate for their father's lack of a wife. Even as children, Anne recalled, he always talked to us very gravely as if we were... |
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