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Anne Thackeray Ritchie: journals and letters
Get PDF(print) xxviii, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cmPreface ix -- Acknowledgments xv -- Editors' Note xvii -- Genealogy of Anne Thackeray Ritchie xx -- Chronology xxi -- 1. 1840-1851 1 -- Letters 1-11 11 -- 2. 1852-1858 21 -- Letters 12-26 37 -- 3. 1859-1863 59 -- Letters 27-40 11 -- 4. 1864-1865 98 -- Journal 119 -- Letters 41-50 141 -- 5. 1866-1877 154 -- Letters 51-65 173 -- 6. 1878 181 -- Journal 191 -- 7. 1879-1900 213 -- Letters 66-98 229 -- 8. 1901-1919 258 -- Letters 99-115 212 -- Appendix : Chronological Summary of Letters, 1846-1919 285 -- Abbreviations 293 -- Notes 295 -- Works by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, 1860-1920 357 -- Index 36
Negotiating Victorian Feminism: Anne Thackeray Ritchie\u27s Short Fiction
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Best known for her autobiographical introductions to the collected works of her father, William Makepeace Thackeray, and for her biographical essays on several famous writers, Anne Thackeray Ritchie has repeatedly been considered most important as a source of inside information regarding her famous contemporaries. From Dickens to the Brownings, from Tennyson to James, she counted many of the canonical British nineteenth- and early- twentieth-century writers as her friends and often wrote to and about them.2 The scope of her work, however, is much wider and deserves closer scrutiny than it has so far received
A Book of Sibyls
No full textAnne Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919) was a writer and the eldest daughter of the novelist W. M. Thackeray. She had a tumultuous childhood: her mother suffered from depression and was eventually committed to a sanatorium, and the family experienced poverty before her father's literary success. Anne was extremely close to her father, who admired her intellect and encouraged her writing. When he died, Anne set up house with her sister Harriet and her brother-in-law, the literary journalist Leslie Stephen. Anne's novels were serialised in the Cornhill Magazine, which her father had edited, and their success established her literary reputation. A Book of Sibyls is Anne's study of four female writers: the poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld and the novelists Amelia Opie, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=ritcan</jats:p
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Resistance, regard and rewriting: Virginia Woolf and Anne Thackeray Ritchie
No full textThis article discusses the literary relationship of the novelist and memoirist,Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919), and her step-niece, Virginia Woolf.Ritchie’s influence was a highly significant one which prompted a powerful ambiguity in Woolf, who was alternately admiring and dismissively anxious to deny influence, eager to relegate her to a staunchly Victorian past while covertly sensitive to those elements in her writing linking her with Modernism. These ‘Modern’ elements, including emphasis on the subjective nature of reality and the everyday life of the mind, occur in Ritchie’s fiction, affecting its style and structure. This article focuses on Night and Day, then on Woolf ’s more direct comments about Ritchie in diaries, letters and essays, comparing these comments and Woolf ’s theoretical agenda in defining Modernism and, implicitly, her own place in it. It also considers some of Ritchie’s fiction, with particular attention to two novellas, one a source for To The Lighthouse
Anne Thackeray Ritchie\u27s Links with the Past: Nostalgic for Progress
No full textAnne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919) was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray and a writer of fiction, essays, and biography. She began her career anonymously in 1860 with the essay Little Scholars for the Cornhill Magazine, which was edited by her father. Over the next six decades, she wrote more than 100 periodical publications and built her reputation with five novels and two novellas, five books of short stories, five collections of essays, and, beginning in the 1880s, numerous biographical essays and memoirs about her father and his generation of literary friends. By the end of the nineteenth century, collections such as Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning (1892) and Chapters from Some Memoirs (1894) positioned Ritchie as an authority on a bygone era, and this reputation was only enhanced by Ritchie\u27s biographical introductions to her father\u27s complete works, which were first published between 1898 and 1899. 1 William Thackeray never wanted his biography written, and perhaps this refusal made the public even hungrier for one. In an early review of the still incomplete multivolume project, the Edinburgh Review expressed its gratitude to Ritchie: [I]t would have been a kind of national misfortune if posterity had been left without some authentic record of his personal history.
Feminine Realism in Cornhill Magazine: Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Frances Parthenope Verney
Get PDFThis thesis explores the literature published by two lesser known women writers in Cornhill Magazine during the 1860s: Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Frances Parthenope Verney. By using the magazine as a context for their fiction, I examine the ways in which these writers both reflect Cornhill\u27s brand of realism, which privileged masculine ideology, and diverge from it, inserting a feminine perspective. Because the magazine\u27s representation of the multiple facets of its society is varied and complex, my thesis examines a particular aspect of societal representation: one that depicts mid-nineteenth-century society in transition from traditional to progressive values. Caught between these phases, Thackeray Ritchie and Verney recognize and reflect the implications such a transition had on women and their place in society. Both embrace traditional values and comply with gender norms, creating distinctly feminine texts, but, in so doing, they argue for more opportunities for women, including education, vocation, and independence. In the process of portraying women, they create a feminine realism that complies with but expands Cornhill\u27s masculine ideology and realist constructions
Records of Girlhood, Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods
No full textIn this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining) and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Sarah Grand). © Valerie Sanders 2012. All rights reserved
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