William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Residence Blanche Warre Cornish
Blanche Ritchie's childhood was peripatetic. She was apparently sent home from India to live with her grandmother in Paris. She was presumably in England when her father had a year's leave there in 1855...
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.
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Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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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.
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Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Residence Nina Hamnett
However, in the late twenties NH made arrangements with a scientist acquaintance of hers, a Dr Stafford Hatfield , to share his work space with him for the cost of half a month's rent. His...
Residence Eliza Lynn Linton
She was said to have moved there as a result of her quarrel with the editor of the Morning Chronicle. She shared a two-room apartment up five flights of stairs with a young Anglo-French...
Residence Anne Thackeray Ritchie
With her sister and father , the child Anne Thackeray moved from Paris (where the girls had been living with their paternal grandparents) to 13 Young Street, Kensington.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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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.
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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...
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.
84
, 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...

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