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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
A. Mary F. Robinson
It was her first of several writings on literary subjects for this periodical, most of them published in the early twentieth century. Her other contributions were French translations of earlier works, including a three-part discussion...
Travel
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Visiting Paris with her sister and father
, Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
54
after the recent coup d'état.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
54
Travel
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) travelled to Italy with her father
and sister.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
85, 89
Travel
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) and her sister wintered in Paris during their father
's second American tour.
Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981.
101
Travel
Charlotte Brontë
CB
visited London, where she met Thackeray
and Harriet Martineau
, both of whom she admired.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
617-22
Travel
Charlotte Brontë
During the visit, she attended a Thackeray
lecture, viewed paintings at Somerset House
, went to the Great Exhibition several times, and saw the great actress Rachel perform twice.
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.
55, 69, 76
Wealth and Poverty
Anna Brownell Jameson
Anne Procter
and Thackeray
were active in soliciting financial aid for her. John Murray
and Thackeray later became her trustees.
Thomas, Clara. Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson. University of Toronto Press, 1967.