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 et al., 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.
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, 1996.
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...
Textual Production
Adelaide Procter
She also took Anne Thackeray
on a tour of various concerns associated with the Society, which led Thackeray to produce her essay Toilers and Spinners in the Cornhill Magazine in 1861.
Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998.
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is believed to have written many songs, but to have left them unpublished.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, 1990.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
saw some of her letters and printed some passages from her diary of her travels abroad.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919.
68-70
Textual Production
Laurence Alma-Tadema
The British Library Catalogue ascribes this work to LAT
's very similarly-named stepmother. Deventer-Busken Huet also translated a work by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
.
Textual Production
Anne Evans
Throughout her life AE
continually composed letters, witty definitions, and epigrams. Some of her early writing was included in Anne Thackeray Ritchie
's Preface to the posthumously published Poems and Music. She expressed through...
Textual Production
Anne Evans
It included a memorial by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Dinah Mulock Craik
Kiss and Be Friends hopes for a rapprochement of England and Ireland; from an avowedly Irish position.
The question of Irishness figures frequently in DMC
's fiction, which both confirms and complicates the stereotyping of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Sophie Veitch
SV
's Current Fiction despatches nine novels (all but one from 1885), but subordinates them to an over-arching critical position that novelists must have a clear, definite, and deliberately formed opinion as to the object...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anthony Trollope
The critical opinions he voices here are often cited. Chapter 13, entitled On English Novelists of the Present Day, gives first place to Thackeray
and second to George Eliot
. On her he voices...
Travel
Margaret Oliphant
Four years later she was in Grindelwald in Switzerland, with Anne Thackeray Ritchie
and Leslie Stephen
.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
104-5
Travel
Blanche Warre Cornish
During their first years in this house they made frequent visits to Thackeray
and his daughters Minny
and Anny
at 2 Palace Green, Kensington.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin, 1911.
