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
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
) and her sister wintered in Paris during their father
's second American tour. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 101 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
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