Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters (Studies in Victorian Life & Literature) - Hardcover

Ritchie, Anne Thackeray; Shankman, Lillian F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814206387 ISBN 13: 9780814206386

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Peopled with such literary figures as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters, and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only small portions of each journal have been previously published, this important collection presents an essential document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death.

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Synopsis

Peopled with literary figures such as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only a third of each journal has been previously published, this collection presents a valuable document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death. As the daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie was well acquainted with the literary social scene of London. At an early age, she became her father's companion and hostess after her mother went permanently insane; like her father, she became a best-selling writer of novels and articles. Her journals and letters offer a portrait of Ritchie, of her relationship with her father, and of mid-Victorian middle-class life in London and abroad. Lillian Shankman's narrative creates a context that enables the reader to follow the threads of biography and major themes in Ritchie's thinking and works. Shankman furnishes the reader with an accurate and warm account of Ritchie's exceptional life and milieu and her development as a woman of letters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814206387
• ISBN 13: 9780814206386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Shankman Lillian F., Bloom Abigail Burnham, Maynard John