Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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Standard Name: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
Birth Name: Anne Isabella Thackeray
Married Name: Anne Isabella Ritchie
Titled: Lady Anne Isabella Ritchie
Nickname: Anny
Nickname: Tottie
Nickname: Pussy
Nickname: Fat
Pseudonym: A I Titmarsh
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, John Maynard, Abigail Burnham Bloom, and John Maynard, 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.
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To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...
Education
Amy Levy
At some time during her girlhood AL
listed her favourite poets as all men, while her favourite prose writers included Charlotte Brontë
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, George Eliot
, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie
.
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
Of Leslie Stephen's relations, Virginia was closest to the writer Anne Thackeray Ritchie
(Minny Stephen's sister), and to Caroline Emelia Stephen
(Leslie's sister).
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(10 August 1922): 14
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Evans
Her loving remembrance of her father was, in the words of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, one which breaks down the barriers . . . even of death itself.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix.
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Family and Intimate relationships
William Makepeace Thackeray
The couple had three daughters: future novelist Anne
, born in 1837; Jane, who died at eight months; and finally Harriet Marian, or Minnie
, born in 1840.
Friends, Associates
Marie Belloc Lowndes
As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
369-70
As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111 - 15.
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Friends, Associates
Margaret Oliphant
MO
met her fellow-writer Anne Thackeray Ritchie
at Interlaken in Switzerland, and began the last of her really intimate and lasting female friendships.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
19-20
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
During an earlier visit to Italy in the summer of 1853, FK
's social circle had included Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, and her former acquaintance Harriet Hosmer
. She met the young Anne Thackeray
in Rome.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
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Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
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Timeline
19 July 1870
Napoleon III
declared war on Prussia, initiating the Franco-Prussian War.
1880
Ten years after the author's death, Anne Evans
: Poems and Music appeared with a memorialpreface by her friend Anne Thackeray Ritchie
.
July 1889
Women's Suffrage: A Reply appeared in the Fortnightly Review to counter Mary Augusta Ward
's Appeal Against Female Suffrage in the previous month's Nineteenth Century.