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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Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
and her husband kept up the Kemble family tradition with private theatricals. She also continued to attend the London theatre: when she first saw on stage a young unknown called Henry Irving
, she... |
Publishing | Adelaide Kemble | It had appeared in the Cornhill Magazine before being published in volume form. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Adelaide Kemble | AK
is believed to have written many songs, but to have left them unpublished. 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. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray. 68-70 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | 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. 156 Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 227 |
Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | The book aims at literary recuperation. Here ML
blends analysis with celebration, but she recalls her marginalised writers primarily to raise questions about the present state of writing for children. She says that her subjects... |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | The review by E. V. Lucas
in the Times Literary Supplement set out (with some slight rhetorical camouflage) to insinuate both that Edgeworth did not fully deserve her place in this distinguished series, and that... |
Travel | Vernon Lee | VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning |
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. 16 |
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. 369-70 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 263-4 |
Friends, Associates | George Meredith | GM
knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Algernon Swinburne
—he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood
, Lucie Duff Gordon
, Leslie Stephen
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie |
Textual Features | Charlotte Mew | The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie
's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë
's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men. |
Publishing | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
advised an artist named George Baxter
on scenes to engrave as woodcuts for a Whittaker
edition of Our Village, probably 1835. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 157 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. 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. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
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. 20 Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 19-20 Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 104 |
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