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.
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
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
Travel Charlotte Brontë
CB again visited the Smith s in London, where she met a number of young female writers, among others Anne Thackeray and Adelaide Procter .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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