MAD
's relationships with her aunts have been recorded in various ways. She was named after her oldest paternal aunt, Mary Mamie Dickens
and writes warmly about her in her 1897 essay A Child's Memories...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Following his death Charles Collins
(Wilkie
's brother), with his wife (the former Kate Dickens
) and family, were the main sources of support for ATR
and her sister. Between 1,500 and 2,000 mourners...
Dickens
's daughter Kate
recalled this as her father's favourite among MEB
's novels, and George Moore
liked it so much he represented his heroine in A Mummer's Wife (1885) as reading it. It may...
Travel
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR
and her sister occupied an apartment which adjoined that of their grandparents. Friends in Paris for the season included Adelaide Kemble Sartoris (with whom they travelled), the Storys, and the Brownings. ATR and her...