Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
- Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (9 July 1837 in London – 1919) was an English writer.
Anne Isabella was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. She spent her childhood in France and, in 1863, published "The story of Elizabeth" with immediate success.
Several works followed:
* "To Esther, and other sketches" (1869)
* "The Village on the Cliff"
* "Old Kensington"
* "Tailors and spinsters, and other essays"
* "Bluebeard's keys, and other stories"
* "Five Old Friends"
In other writings, she peculiarly used old folk stories to depict modern situations and occurrences, such as "Sleeping Beauty", "Cinderella" and "Little Red Riding Hood".
She married her cousin Richmond Ritchie in 1877.
She also published the following novels:
* "Miss Angel" (1875)
* "Miss Wiuiainson's divagations" (1881)
* "Mrs. Dymond" (1885)
* "A book of sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Mrs. Opie, Miss EdgeWorth, Miss Austen"(1883)
* the biography "Madame de Sévigné" (1881)
References
*cite book|title=Forbidden Journeys|author=Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher|Publisher= University of Chicago Press|id=ISBN 0226032043
*cite book|title=Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed: Modernism's Fairy Tales|author= Ann Martin|Publisher=University of Toronto Press|id=ISBN 0802090869
Further reading
*cite book|title=Chapters from Some Memoirs|author=Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie|Publisher=Adamant Media Corporation|id=ISBN 0543920984
* [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?c=juv&b=UF00081994 "Introduction" by Anne Thackeray Ritchie] in "Our Village", fully and openly available online in the [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?c=juv Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection]
External links
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