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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | L. E. L. | Thackeray
's review of the novel complimented LEL on her style but repeated the affective fallacy that operated so strongly in criticism of her poetry: The wit of it is really startling; and there are... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Grand | The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a preposterous story, preposterously related. |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | The controversial quality of this book made it popular in the USA as well as in England, and several new editions followed. Thackeray
, however, wrote: We never met with a book more pernicious or... |
| Literary Setting | Rhoda Broughton | The disparity in age between husband and wife in this novel, unlike that in Nancy, suggests only insurmountable difference. Belinda Churchill, resident in an ancient university town which Broughton calls Oxbridge, marries the... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Although she continued to write letters and journals, and produced one fairy tale, she did not attempt to write professionally until encouraged by her father to do so in 1860. 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. 36 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 278-9, 295 |
| names | Evelyn Sharp |
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| names | Lady Charlotte Bury |
|
| Occupation | Anne Evans | On this recommendation she agreed to become a companion to William Makepeace Thackeray
's daughters. 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. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, 1880, p. vii - xxix. viii-ix |
| Occupation | Camilla Crosland | She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about... |
| Occupation | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | As they reached adulthood, ATR
and her sister came increasingly to compensate for their father's lack of a wife. Even as children, Anne recalled, he always talked to us very gravely as if we were... |
| Other Life Event | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
celebrated the centenary of the birth of her father
with a ceremony on Brick Court's Middle Temple, where 2,000 people gathered. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 267 |
| Performance of text | Sir J. M. Barrie | James Barrie
's fifth play, Becky Sharp (titled from the protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair), was first performed. Also this year he collaborated with Arthur Conan Doyle
on a libretto for Jane Annie. “Peter Pan: a selling exhibition of memorabilia”. C20th.com. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996. 55 |
| politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM
was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail
. She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth
, friend and... |
| politics | Frances Isabella Duberly | Her war experience played havoc with FID
's gender attitudes. Amid disease, death, cruelty, and official complacency, she wrote in a letter that she had become too hard to cry for anyone but her horse:... |
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