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.
passim
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
attended the opening of the Manchester Free Library
, the first major, free public lending library in England, at which speakers included Charles Dickens
, Edward Bulwer Lytton
and William Makepeace Thackeray
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 303-4 |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert
still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 2: 278 |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray
, according to his daughter Anne
. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 9 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Thackeray
(associating Morgan in his comments with Frances Trollope
) said the cultural judgements in this book were based on nothing but tea-table gossip. McMaster, Rowland D. Thackeray’s Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The Newcomes. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991. 124 |
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
| Literary responses | Emily Eden | EE
herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected. qtd. in Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20. 16-17 |
| Literary responses | Hélène Gingold | Among five favourable reviews later quoted, the Daily Telegraph offered an apparently enthusiastic plot-summary. The Liverpool Daily Post likened the work to Thackeray
's Henry Esmond, 1852. qtd. in Gingold, Hélène, and Harry Furniss. Financial Philosophy. Greening, 1902. 91 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | Harriet Martineau
, finding the work attributed to herself even by members of her own family, felt that the unknown author must know not only my books but myself very well. . . . With... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | John Blackwood
was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray
, too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood
's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled... |
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