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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Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Stephen's sombre attitude was a consequence in part of his sad marital history. He married his first wife, Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray
(younger daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray
, sister of Anne Thackeray Ritchie) in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray
the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius. 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. 6 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Gore | CG
's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore
, was said to be the original of Thackeray
's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis. Ray, Gordon Norton. Thackeray. Octagon Books. 2: 53, 54 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Joseph Parkes
, Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | The writer William Makepeace Thackeray
was BWC
's first cousin once removed (a cousin—and good friend—of her father). She later recalled becoming familiar with him at an early age. Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin. 3-4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money). Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 42, 44 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game. Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 161 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Crowe | CC
had already become a friend of Sydney Smith
and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol
, chemist Samuel Brown
, artist David Scott |
Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant
(an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor
, whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
attended a party given by Thackeray
for Charlotte Brontë
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 211 |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton
, a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne
and Lord Monteagle
; writers William Thackeray
, Charles Dickens
, Emily Eden
, Elliot Warburton
, Alfred Tennyson |
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... |
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