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, 1994, 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.
  • BirthName: Anne Isabella Thackeray
  • Nicknames: Anny; Tottie; Pussy
  • Married: Ritchie
  • Pseudonym: A I Titmarsh
    In a manuscript letter poem from 1850 or 1851, Anne Thackeray adapted her father's famous pseudonym in signing herself A I Titmarsh.
    Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters. Editors Bloom, Abigail Burnham and John Maynard, Ohio State University Press, 1994.
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  • Titled: Lady
  • Indexed: Miss Thackeray
    Thackeray is the name by which she was known for most of her writing career, even after her marriage.
    Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
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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, 1981.
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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, 1994, 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, 1994, 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, 1981.
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Biography

Birth and Family

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, 1981.
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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, 1994, p. various pages.
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