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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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | William Makepeace Thackeray
is undoubtedly the single largest influence on ATR
's writing. 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. 65 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In August 2009 an issue of Women's Writing devoted to the silver-fork novel included several discussions of CG
's work. April Kendra
argued that Thackeray
learned from her as well as parodying her.Lauren Gillingham |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford
thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Although she occasionally uses the theatre metaphor employed by her father
(as at the end of Old Kensington), few of ATR
's characters feel like puppets pulled on strings. As her final novel notes... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Porter | JP
's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The chapters are headed with epigraphs from writers including Tennyson
, the BrowningsRobert Browning
, and her father
.The book pays tribute to the vanished Kensington of ATR
's childhood, still in the 1850s a venerable... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Lynn Linton | Her one-paragraph preface says these pieces were written long since,in the days of crinoline,croquet, and the violent purples of the then new aniline dyes. This places the period of composition in the 1860s, after... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
headed her book with two lines from Thomas Campion
: Alas, poor book . . . go spread thy papery wings. / Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame. qtd. in O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. Modern Men. Leadenhall Press, 1887. prelims |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Porter | Felix Charlemont fights in the Napoleonic wars, and one battle scene verbally prefigures Thackeray
's account of Waterloo in Vanity Fair: The roar of artillery and musketry continued long after Charlemont fell; at length... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The paired heroines of The Lady's Mile each tread close to being seduced across that camouflaged barrier after each has, for quite different reasons, entered a loveless marriage. The beautiful, aristocratic, and noble but impoverished... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | The title of the Blackstick Papers alludes to the character of the Fairy Blackstick from her father
's Rose and the Ring: she places her essays under the kindly tutelage Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Blackstick Papers. Books for Libraries Press, 1969. 3-4 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Sharp | The protagonist is called Becky Sharp, a name which interestingly combines a clue as to self-portraiture with homage to Thackeray
's equally intelligent though less sensitive and feeling heroine. This Becky is a child who... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | Like her first novel to see print, Gee says, this one took seven years to find a publisher. Speaking about it at a date fairly early in its long quest for print, she mentioned that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Sarah Hoey | Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to... |
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