William Makepeace Thackeray

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Standard Name: Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Literary responses Catherine Gore
Thackeray 's review said, with apparent disdain: Supposing that Pall-mall were the world . . . [this] might be a good guide book. . . . the moral is that which very likely the author...
Literary responses Catherine Gore
CG , identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed...
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 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.
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A sense of her...
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, p. various pages.
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That the young Anne Thackeray
names Anne Thackeray Ritchie
W. M. Thackeray regularly addessed his daughter in correspondence to her and others by the apparently derogatory endearment Fat.
MacKay, Carol Hanbery. “’Only Connect’: The Multiple Roles of Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, Vol.
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She was known throughout her life to friends and family as Anny.
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...
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.
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Anne Evans. “Preface”. Anne Evans: Poems and Music, C. Kegan Paul, p. vii - xxix.
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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.
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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.
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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:...
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...
Author summary Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster 's tally of books, which began to appear in the later twentieth century, neared forty. They run the gamut from novels at one end to history and biography at the other, emphasising the...
Author summary Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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, 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...

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