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 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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The one...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
75-6
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
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...
Residence Angela Thirkell
Angela Mackail grew up in the house rented by her parents, 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, next door to the Greyhound Tavern. Their landlady was the writer Anne Thackeray Ritchie , who had grown...
Residence Anne Evans
This was her last home. She and her mother remained there after her sister married. Her life here was retired but far from isolated: their home was continually filled with a procession of visiting family...
Residence Anna Letitia Barbauld
They lived in several successive places there: most famously, for their final decade at Hampstead, in Church Row (where Anne Thackeray Ritchie , making a pilgrimage to their house about 1880, claimed to have seen...
Reception Lucy Walford
After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with...
Reception Sara Coleridge
SC 's friend and later memoirist Henry Reed argued that in her efforts to defend and preserve her father's works she demonstrated an amount of original thought and an affluence of learning, which, differently and...
Reception Sarah Orne Jewett
Jewett wrote both diaries and letters from an early age, and was an avid reader. Reminiscing, she said she remembered thinking that if I could write just as Miss Thackeray did in her charming stories...
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
Further complete editions, selections, and translations into many languages followed...
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.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie wrote a preface for a re-issue of 1902, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton .
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.
Publishing Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
She had already included an inset fairy story in L'Histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas, 1690, which did not reach English until 1699. For more than a century her name was often attached to individually...
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
Soon after her marriage AK gave up singing except in drawing-rooms and at village gatherings. Her writing was in some sense a substitute for her singing, with the many songs she composed forming a kind...
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...

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Texts

Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Richardson Evans. Lord Amherst and the British Advance Eastwards to Burma. Clarendon, 1894.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Madame de Sévigné. W. Blackwood, 1881.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Miss Angel. Smith, Elder, 1875.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Miss Williamson’s Divagations. Smith, Elder, 1881.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Mrs. Dymond. Smith, Elder, 1885.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Mrs. Dymond. B. Tauchnitz, 1886.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Old Kensington. Smith, Elder, 1873.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Old Kensington. Smith, Elder, 1891.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. “Out of the World”. Cornhill Magazine, Vol.
8
, pp. 366 - 84; 449.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Out of the World and Other Tales. B. Tauchnitz, 1876.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. “Preface”. A Week in a French Country-House, Smith, Elder, 1903, p. i - xlv.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning. Macmillan, 1892.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. “Reminiscences”. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends, T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Thackeray and His Daughter. Editor Fuller, Hester Helen Thackeray, Harper and Brothers, 1924.
Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d’ et al. The Fairy Tales of Madame d’Aulnoy. Translators Macdonell, Annie and Miss Lee, Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. The Story of Elizabeth. B. Tauchnitz, 1863.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Esther Schwartz-McKinzie. The Story of Elizabeth; and, Old Kensington. Thoemmes Press, 1995.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray et al. The Two Thackerays: Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Centenary Biographical Introductions to the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. AMS Press, 1988.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. The Village on the Cliff. Smith, Elder, 1867.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. The Village on the Cliff. Smith, Elder, 1875.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. “Toilers and Spinsters”. Cornhill Magazine, Vol.
3
, pp. 318-31.