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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| names | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | W. M. Thackeray
regularly addessed his daughter in correspondence to her and others by the apparently derogatory endearment Fat. |
| 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 | Charlotte Brontë | CB
was stung by Elizabeth Rigby
's attack on the second edition in the Quarterly, which entered the debate over governesses by reviewing the novel alongside Thackeray
's Vanity Fair and the Report of... |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert
still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 2: 278 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Edward Copeland
calls this Gore's most serious and ambitious novel, one that attempts the same social and historical reach as Thackeray
's Vanity Fair, as well as a self-conscious valediction to the silver fork novel. Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press. 209 |
| Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | Savkar Altinel
in the Times Literary Supplement was highly critical of this novel, Altinel, Savkar. “Man Trouble”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4237, p. 676. 676 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Thackeray
's review said, with apparent disdain: Supposing that Pall-mall were the world . . . [this] might be a good guide book. . . . the moral is that which very likely the author... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | CG
, identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore
in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed... |
| 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 | 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 |
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