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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Anne Evans | On this recommendation she agreed to become a companion to William Makepeace Thackeray
's daughters. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, p. vii - xxix. viii-ix |
| names | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | W. M. Thackeray
regularly addessed his daughter in correspondence to her and others by the apparently derogatory endearment Fat. MacKay, Carol Hanbery. “’Only Connect’: The Multiple Roles of Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, Vol. 30 , pp. 83-112. 89 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 278-9, 295 |
| 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 |
| Literary Setting | Rhoda Broughton | The disparity in age between husband and wife in this novel, unlike that in Nancy, suggests only insurmountable difference. Belinda Churchill, resident in an ancient university town which Broughton calls Oxbridge, marries the... |
| Literary responses | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton | Bulwer's Newgate novels were insistently skewered by William Maginn
, and after 1836 by Thackeray
, in Fraser's Magazine. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
| Literary responses | L. E. L. | Thackeray
's review of the novel complimented LEL on her style but repeated the affective fallacy that operated so strongly in criticism of her poetry: The wit of it is really startling; and there are... |
| Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford
spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 316 |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | She herself thought this better than her novels, but Thackeray
satirised it as Heavenly Chords; A Collection of Sacred Strains by Lady Frances Juliana Flummery. Susan Ferrier
agreed with the author that the prayers... |
| 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 | Sarah Grand | The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a preposterous story, preposterously related. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 544 |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Thackeray
wrote scathingly about this novel: If this is exclusive love, it should be a lesson to all men never to marry a woman beyond the rank of a milk-maid and vice-versa. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 65 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | When Thackeray
published his Paris Sketch-Book in 1840, he self-consciously distanced himself from what he called the tea-party prattle of Morgan and Frances Trollope
(in Paris and the Parisians, 1836). Jay, Elisabeth. “British Writers and Paris, 1840-1871: a research project in outline”. English Now: Selected Papers from the 20th IAUPE Conference in Lund 2007, edited by Marianne Thormählen, Lund University, pp. 110-17. 111 |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | The controversial quality of this book made it popular in the USA as well as in England, and several new editions followed. Thackeray
, however, wrote: We never met with a book more pernicious or... |
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