Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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ATR produced, mostly during the later nineteenth century, twenty-one books of fiction, essays, and literary memoirs.
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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Her biographical prefaces to her famous father 's novels are best known, but she was also a major biographer and critic of others, particularly women. Her fiction, which regularly treats gender inequality and limited female options, has not been given its due.
Black and white photograph of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, seated and staring peacefully off into the distance. She is wearing a white dress with puffed shoulders, long sleeves, details of lace, ruffles, and a flower at the neckline, and a pearl button fastening the waistband. She has a stack of pearl necklaces around her neck, her dark hair is pulled into a bun and fastened with a metal pin, and she holds flowers in her hands.

Milestones

9 June 1837

Anne Isabella Thackeray , later ATR , was born at 18 Albion St, Hyde Park, London.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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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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After February 1919

ATR 's From Friend to Friend, edited and published posthumously by her sister-in-law Emily Ritchie , collected previously printed essays, including a short story and her final work, In a French Village.
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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26 February 1919

After a gradual decline ATR died at her home in Freshwater on the Isle of Wight.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Biography

After having been Mrs Richmond Ritchie for three decades, she gained this title when her husband was knighted in 1907.
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.
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, pp. 83-112.
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She was known throughout her life to friends and family as Anny.

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