William Makepeace Thackeray

After her mother died she was sent to a boarding school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (which she later remembered, perhaps snobbishly, for the lack of good company). By one means or the other she...

As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley , William Harrison Ainsworth , and John Forster (who later became...

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

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...

Blanche Warre Cornish edited, and contributed biographical reminiscences to, Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray ; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish, published at Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

Blanche Ritchie's childhood was peripatetic. She was apparently sent home from India to live with her grandmother in Paris. She was presumably in England when her father had a year's leave there in 1855...

During their first years in this house they made frequent visits to Thackeray and his daughters Minny and Anny at 2 Palace Green, Kensington.

It is discreetly dedicated (by her initials) to Jane Brookfield , mistress of Thackeray . It was soon translated into Dutch, and published in the USA both at New York and at Philadelphia...

During the same year, 1911, BWC contributed Thackeray and his Father's Family to the Cornhill (new series 31), and the following year, 1912, she contributed An Impression of Thackeray in his Last Years to the...

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...

After she became established as a novelist, CC was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...

The first number of the Cornhill, January 1860, carried a poem by CC which the editor, Thackeray , called noble and touching, but after he declined another poem submitted that April Clive contributed nothing further.

HMC was one of the handful of women cited by Johnson (as Miss Mulso) as an authority in his Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 (all of them among the fifty or so...

As well as the songs already mentioned, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography names The Hundred Pipers and Wha'll be King but Charlie? as among the handful of COLN 's songs that remained common currency...