Blanche Warre Cornish

01 January 1847 - 09 August 1922

From sheer force of personality BWC made a more lasting impression on her contemporaries than was perhaps justified by her two nineteenth-century novels, her scattered essays and reviews, and her twentieth-century book of edited letters and some family and literary reminiscence. After her death a slim volume of her sayings was published.

BirthName: Blanche Ritchie
Married: Cornish
Pseudonym: The Author of Alcestis
Indexed: Warre-Cornish

Milestones

About 1847

Blanche Ritchie (later BWC ) was born; her reminiscences sound as if she was born in India, one of a large family.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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, 1911.

1911

Blanche Warre Cornish edited, and contributed biographical reminiscences to, Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray ; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish, published at Boston, Massachusetts.

OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

9 August 1922

BWC died in London, having outlived her husband by six years.

The Feminist Companion mistakenly dates her death as happening in 1914.

“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.

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Biography

Birth and Family

About 1847

Blanche Ritchie (later BWC ) was born; her reminiscences sound as if she was born in India, one of a large family.

Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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, 1911.