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Ritchie, Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady (1837–1919), elder daughter of Thackeray. She wrote novels of an impressionistic kind which influenced her step-niece V. Woolf: Old Kensington (1873) and Mrs Dymond (1885) are probably the best remembered. She also wrote reminiscences of the literary figures she had known in her youth.

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Lady

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Lady 1837-1919, English writer; eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray. In 1877 she married a cousin, Richmond T. W. Ritchie (knighted 1907). She wrote several novels but is more notable as one of the last commentators who had known the famous Victorians. Her biographical writings include notes for an edition of Thackeray's works (25 vol., 1898-99), Tennyson and His Friends (1892), and Chapters from Some Memoirs (1894).

Bibliography: See Thackeray and His Daughter: Letters and Journals (ed. by H. T. Ritchie, 1924).

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Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–63), educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a close friend of E. Fitzgerald. He left Cambridge without taking a degree, having lost some of his inheritance through gambling. He entered the Middle Temple, but he never practised as a barrister. He began his career in journalism as proprietor of a struggling weekly paper, the National Standard, in 1833; it ceased publication a year later. He also studied art in London and in Paris. He married Isabella Shawe in 1836, the year in which his first publication in volume form, Flore et Zephyr, appeared. The Thackerays returned to London, where their first child, Anne ( Anne Thackeray Ritchie), was born in 1837. Thackeray began to contribute to Fraser's Magazine, the Morning Chronicle, the New Monthly Magazine, The Times, and many other periodicals. After the birth of their third child, Harriet Marian (later the first wife of Leslie Stephen), in 1840 Isabella Thackeray suffered a mental breakdown which proved permanent.

Thackeray first came to the attention of the public with The Yellowplush Papers, which appeared in Fraser's Magazine in 1837–8, followed by Catherine (1839) and A Shabby Genteel Story (1840). His first full-length volume, The Paris Sketch Book (1840), was followed by The Great Hoggarty Diamond (1841) a mock-heroic tale about a diamond which brings bad luck to Samuel Titmarsh, an amiable young clerk who inherits the gem: this is narrated by Sam's cousin, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, who provided Thackeray with his most familiar pseudonym. Other pseudonyms included ‘George Savage FitzBoodle’, a bachelor clubman, ‘author’ of The FitzBoodle Papers (1842–3), narrator of Men's Wives (1843) and ‘editor’ of The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844); Jeames de la Pluche; and ‘Our Fat Correspondent’. The Irish Sketch Book of 1843 (a personal, impressionistic and prejudiced account of an 1842 tour of Ireland) has a preface signed, for the first, with Thackeray's own name.

Thackeray began his association with Punch in 1842, and contributed to it caricatures as well as articles and humorous sketches. The Snobs of England, by One of Themselves (1846–7, later published as The Book of Snobs, 1848), was narrated by ‘Mr Snob’. This constitutes his great anatomy of the English vice of snobbery, a term he invented. Mr Punch's Prize Novelists (1847) parodies the leading writers of the day.

His first major novel, Vanity Fair (1847), began to appear in monthly numbers, with illustrations by the author. Pendennis (1848–50 was followed by The History of Henry Esmond (1852, 3 vols), and The Newcomes, published in numbers in 1853–5. Thackeray continued to produce lighter work, including a series of ‘Christmas Books’ which he illustrated himself. In 1851 he gave a series of lectures, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, and in 1855–7, he lectured on The Four Georges. He twice visited the USA to deliver his lectures, in 1851–3 and 1855–6. The Virginians, set in America, appeared in numbers in 1857–9. In 1860 he became the first editor of the Cornhill Magazine, for which he wrote his Roundabout Papers and in which appeared Lovel the Widower, The Adventures of Philip, and the unfinished Denis Duval.

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