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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Anne Evans
She worked as an amanuensis for Thackeray , transcribing his The Rose and the Ring. She maintained a lifelong fondness for him, and on his death in 1863 she composed an ode, full of...
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
Gabriel anticipated critics when he described Commonplace as a prose tale . . . rather in the Austen vein.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Editors Doughty, Oswald and John Robert Wahl, Clarendon Press.
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Contrasting Commonplace, and Other Short Stories with tawdry romance,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2223 (1870): 734
the...
Literary responses Marie de Sévigné
For years MS was ridiculed for her incorrect orthography, but in fact her unorthodox spelling was modern. It was that advocated by the reformers, participants in a movement to reduce the number of unphonetic letters...
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...
Literary responses Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray , according to his daughter Anne .
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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Arnold Bennett gave it very high praise. Of the passage in which Lucy Audley decides to try to murder Robert, he...
Literary responses Anne Evans
The Academy reviewed Poems and Music positively, although a large portion of the review was devoted to Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's Preface. The reviewer found that [i]n the sonnet Miss Evans succeeds very well...
Literary responses Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre has become a sensitive barometer of feminist criticism. With its author it became the focus of Victorian women critics, including Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Charlotte Mew . Virginia Woolf admired the poetry of...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Anne Thackeray Ritchie , herself a biographer of an eminent Victorian, paid tribute to the the book thus: I can think of no other instance of one woman of mark doing so much honour and...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
The quality of EG 's fiction was recognised early by her contemporaries. George Eliot exempted her, along with Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Brontë , from the ranks of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, noting...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
Other reviews were more complimentary. The Spectator judged both Not Wisely, but Too Well and Cometh Up as a Flower to be no more immoral than Jane Eyre, and said that they represented the...
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.
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Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...
Intertextuality and Influence Rhoda Broughton
RB said that she was first inspired to write when she heard that Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's The Story of Elizabeth was the work of a girl not much older than herself.
Times. Times Publishing Company.
(7 June 1920): 17
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Augusta Ward
Her selections are drawn from both written record and personal memory, interweaving public and private concerns and observations. Her sketches of individuals are often memorable, as in this glimpse: a small dishevelled figure, grey-headed, crouching...
Health Anne Evans
Often she was unable to leave her room, or even her bed, but she remained cheerful, telling Anne Thackeray Ritchie that she could honestly say [she] was content.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, p. vii - xxix.
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Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, p. vii - xxix.
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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.
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Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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