Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell, 1980.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Stephen's sombre attitude was a consequence in part of his sad marital history. He married his first wife, Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray
(younger daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray
, sister of Anne Thackeray Ritchie) in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | William Makepeace Thackeray
died of a stroke after an extended period of deteriorating health. Monsarrat, Ann. An Uneasy Victorian. Cassell, 1980. 423 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Makepeace Thackeray |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Joseph Parkes
, Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Gore | CG
's surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary Gore
, was said to be the original of Thackeray
's coquette Blanche Amory in Pendennis. Ray, Gordon Norton. Thackeray. Octagon Books, 1972, 9 vols. 2: 53, 54 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | 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. Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin, 1911. 3-4 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
shared a close relationship with her father, William Makepeace Thackeray
the novelist, who from early on described her as having genius. qtd. in 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. 6 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 15 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money). Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006. 42, 44 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore | Stoney (henceforward Bowes) was described by a close friend as considering all females as natural game. qtd. in Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006. 161 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
criticized the party, which was also attended by Elizabeth Gaskell
, William Thackeray
, and Tom Taylor
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 204 Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 205 |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sarah Hoey | In order to help establish herself, the future FSH
took with her an introduction from William Carleton
to William Thackeray
. Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1982. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | As well as horticultural and artistic friends and associates, JL
and her husband had literary friends, who included Robert Chambers
and his wife Anne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Mary Howitt
, Julia Kavanagh
, Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | But her reputation was such that even friendships were minefields: a friendly relationship with Thackeray
exposed her firstly to a direct snub from his friend, or lover, Jane Brookfield
(who refused to meet the notorious... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. 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. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, 1 Mar.–31 May 1993, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
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