William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray began a journal which chronicled her anguish in the eighteen months following her father 's death.
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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Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR 's daughter published in the UK Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie and in the US Thackeray and His Daughter, a selection of letters and journals; both also included letters by Thackeray .
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Thackeray and His Daughter. Editor Fuller, Hester Helen Thackeray, Harper and Brothers.
Textual Production Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL 's My Literary Life appeared posthumously, edited by Beatrice Harraden : titled thus on the title-page and spine, it is in the half-title and elsewhere called Reminiscences of Dickens , Thackeray , George Eliot
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR 's acclaimed introductions to Smith, Elder 's 13-volume Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray were launched with the publication of Vanity Fair.
MacKay, Carol Hanbery et al. “Introduction: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, AMS Press.
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Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
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Textual Production A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR published a survey of modern English literature for French readers: Grands écrivains d'outre-manche: lesBrontëAnne Brontë , Thackeray , Les Browning [both Elizabeth and Robert ], Rossetti.
Textual Features Anne Mozley
The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer...
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&gt”;. Quarterly Review, Vol.
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, pp. 153-85.
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[C]onsidering Becky in...
Textual Features Constance Lytton
Most of the letters here are addressed to CL 's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle and her cousin Adela Smith .
Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, p. v, xi - xv.
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Hating the round...
Textual Features Dorothy L. Sayers
Here she mounts a powerful appreciation of the novel, both for its importance in the development of the detective story (all the clues, she says, are clearly conveyed to the reader, something which seldom happened...
Textual Features Lucas Malet
But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The one...
Textual Features Lady Margaret Sackville
Austen , she says, was the first really modern novelist . . . more modern in a sense than Dickens or Thackeray .
Austen, Jane. “Introduction”. Jane Austen, edited by Lady Margaret Sackville, Herbert & Daniel, p. ix - xvi.
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This publication, together with the anthology, suggests that LMS was pursuing...
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...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM 's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Included here were A Musical Instrument, a treatment of the Greek god Pan and of the distortions inflicted on the human life by a calling to poetry, which became one of her most anthologized...

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