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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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Ritchie, Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady

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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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