Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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Standard Name: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
Birth Name: Anne Isabella Thackeray
Married Name: Anne Isabella Ritchie
Titled: Lady Anne Isabella Ritchie
Nickname: Anny
Nickname: Tottie
Nickname: Pussy
Nickname: Fat
Pseudonym: A I Titmarsh
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, 1994, 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 biographer and critic of others, particularly women. Her fiction, which regularly treats gender inequality and limited female options, has not been given its due.
Black and white photograph of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, seated and staring peacefully off into the distance. She is wearing a white dress with puffed shoulders, long sleeves, details of lace, ruffles, and a flower at the neckline, and a pearl button fastening the waistband. She has a stack of pearl necklaces around her neck, her dark hair is pulled into a bun and fastened with a metal pin, and she holds flowers in her hands.

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names Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • BirthName: Anna Letitia Aikin
    McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
    xliii
    She spelled her name both Laetitia and Letitia (when she did not confine herself to initials). Her biographer William McCarthy says he uses Letitia largely for its more appealing appearance...
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
Soon after her marriage AK gave up singing except in drawing-rooms and at village gatherings. Her writing was in some sense a substitute for her singing, with the many songs she composed forming a kind...
Occupation Adelaide Kemble
AK and her husband kept up the Kemble family tradition with private theatricals. She also continued to attend the London theatre: when she first saw on stage a young unknown called Henry Irving , she...
Occupation Anne Evans
She worked as an amanuensis for Thackeray , transcribing his The Rose and the Ring. She maintained a lifelong fondness for him, and on his death in 1863 she composed an ode, full of...
Publishing Mary Russell Mitford
MRM advised an artist named George Baxter on scenes to engrave as woodcuts for a Whittaker edition of Our Village, probably 1835.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 157
Further complete editions, selections, and translations into many languages followed...
Publishing Adelaide Kemble
It had appeared in the Cornhill Magazine before being published in volume form.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie wrote a preface for a re-issue of 1902, with illustrations by Frederic Leighton .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy
She had already included an inset fairy story in L'Histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas, 1690, which did not reach English until 1699. For more than a century her name was often attached to individually...
Reception Sarah Orne Jewett
Jewett wrote both diaries and letters from an early age, and was an avid reader. Reminiscing, she said she remembered thinking that if I could write just as Miss Thackeray did in her charming stories...
Reception Sara Coleridge
SC 's friend and later memoirist Henry Reed argued that in her efforts to defend and preserve her father's works she demonstrated an amount of original thought and an affluence of learning, which, differently and...
Reception Lucy Walford
After the publication of Recollections of a Scottish NovelistLW decided that there were still stories in her mind that rank among the great days of my life, yet which did not fit in with...
Residence Anne Evans
This was her last home. She and her mother remained there after her sister married. Her life here was retired but far from isolated: their home was continually filled with a procession of visiting family...
Residence Angela Thirkell
Angela Mackail grew up in the house rented by her parents, 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, next door to the Greyhound Tavern. Their landlady was the writer Anne Thackeray Ritchie , who had grown...
Residence Anna Letitia Barbauld
They lived in several successive places there: most famously, for their final decade at Hampstead, in Church Row (where Anne Thackeray Ritchie , making a pilgrimage to their house about 1880, claimed to have seen...
Textual Features Margaret Forster
The book is therefore episodic and rambling, and it aims to bypass any retrospective consciousness of its subject's literary significance. Similarly, he writes of his daughter Anny with no sense of the future author or...
Textual Features Charlotte Mew
The essay treats works by women writers, such as Anne Thackeray Ritchie 's The Village on the Cliff and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre and Villette, alongside works by men.

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