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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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. 423 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. 114 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 149 |
| 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 |
| 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. 267 |
| 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. 3-4 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
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