She was forty to his twenty-two. He left Cambridge and took the India Office job in order to marry her.
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 friends Julia Duckworth
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, who married the next year, were...