qtd. in
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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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray
the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 15 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money). Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006. 42, 44 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game. qtd. in Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006. 161 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | William Makepeace Thackeray
died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health. Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell, 1980. 423 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Stephen's sombre attitude was a consequence in part of his sad marital history. He married his first wife, Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray
(younger daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray
, sister of Anne Thackeray Ritchie) in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Joseph Parkes
, Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | The writer William Makepeace Thackeray
was BWC
's first cousin once removed (a cousin—and good friend—of her father). She later recalled becoming familiar with him at an early age. 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. 3-4 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Gore | CG
's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore
, was said to be the original of Thackeray
's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis. Ray, Gordon Norton. Thackeray. Octagon Books, 1972, 9 vols. 2: 53, 54 |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
| Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols. |
| Friends, Associates | Anthony Trollope | Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray
, G. H. Lewes
, Richard Monckton Milnes
, George Eliot
, William Russell
, and John Everett Millais
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Kemble | The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton
, sculptor Hattie Hosmer
, authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé
, Henry Greville
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. She... |
| Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray
and Alfred Tennyson
. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 34 |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Crowe | CC
had already become a friend of Sydney Smith
and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol
, chemist Samuel Brown
, artist David Scott |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Timeline
October 1853-August 1855: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes...
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October 1853-August 1855
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novel The Newcomes was serialised in monthly parts.
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
71-5
Cruse, Amy. The Victorians and Their Books. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
225-6
December 1854: William Makepeace Thackeray, as Mr. M. A....
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December 1854
William Makepeace Thackeray
, as Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, published The Rose and the Ring; or, The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children.
Benjamin, Lewis Saul. Life of William Makepeace Thackeray. Hutchinson, 1890.
II: 296
9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...
Building item
9 April 1855
American Daniel Dunglas Home
arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
3-4, 115
November 1857-October 1859: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Virginians,...
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November 1857-October 1859
William Makepeace Thackeray
's novel The Virginians, sequel to Henry Esmond, appeared monthly, with Thackeray's illustrations.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1617: 515-16
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
75-7
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1032
January 1860: The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary...
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January 1860
The Cornhill Magazine, an influential literary monthly, first appeared in London with Thackeray
as editor and contributor; the first issue sold 110,000 copies.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 321-5, 554
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
150
March-June 1864: William Makepeace Thackeray's final, unfinished...
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March-June 1864
William Makepeace Thackeray
's final, unfinished novel, Denis Duval, appeared in Cornhill Magazine.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
267, 973
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
83
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
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April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything. Oxford University Press, 2003.
93, 107, 109
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