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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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray
the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 15 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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. passim 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. 65 |
| 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. 68-9 |
| 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. 36 |
| 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. 85, 89 |
| 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... |
| 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. 101 |
| 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... |
| 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. xxiii Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 125 |
| 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... |
| 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. 423 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Makepeace Thackeray |
| 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. 2 , pp. 285-7. 293 |
| 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. 114 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 149 |
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