William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Residence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) and her sister spent an unhappy period with their grandparents in Paris during their father 's first American lecture tour.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
William Makepeace Thackeray is undoubtedly the single largest influence on ATR 's writing.
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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She wrote from an early age, having penned several novels and a tragedy
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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by the age of fifteen.
Travel Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) travelled to Italy with her father and sister.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Material Conditions of Writing Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Although she continued to write letters and journals, and produced one fairy tale, she did not attempt to write professionally until encouraged by her father to do so in 1860.
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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That the young Anne Thackeray
Travel Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) and her sister wintered in Paris during their father 's second American tour.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Features Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The narrator adopts a brisk and cheery tone—commenting when her heroine has resigned herself to a useful life devoted to others, My dear little Elizabeth! I am glad that at last she is behaving pretty...
Residence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Thackeray with his daughters Minny and Anny moved to their beloved home at 2 Palace Green, Kensington.
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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Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Although she occasionally uses the theatre metaphor employed by her father (as at the end of Old Kensington), few of ATR 's characters feel like puppets pulled on strings. As her final novel notes...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Thackeray Ritchie
William Makepeace Thackeray died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health.
Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under William Makepeace Thackeray
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson , the BrowningsRobert Browning , and her father . The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR 's childhood, still in the 1850s a...
Residence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Nine months after their father 's death, Anne Thackeray and her sister Minny moved into their own house at 8 Onslow Gardens, Kensington.
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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Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
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, pp. 285-7.
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Other Life Event Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR celebrated the centenary of the birth of her father with a ceremony on Brick Court's Middle Temple, where 2,000 people gathered.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The title of the Blackstick Papers alludes to the character of the Fairy Blackstick from her father 's Rose and the Ring: she places her essays under the kindly tutelage
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press.
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of this spirit...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Thackeray forbade his teenaged daughter Anne to waste [her] time [on] any more scribbling and instructed her to read others' writing instead.
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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