Anny
Anny

Author: Henrietta Garnett

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-02-28

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1446413675

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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer. Based on new and original research, this enchanting and evocative memoir paints the world of Anny's intricate web of relations and friends: children's parties with the Dickens family, holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome and Ruskin on Lake Coniston. In addition we read about Anny's own inner life: her near-obsession with her father: William Makepeace Thackeray, her escape into writing, her startling marriage to her second cousin and her godson, and the story of her sister Minny's passionate marriage to Leslie Stephen. We also learn of Stephen's second wife, Julia Jackson, mother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Meticulously researched, this intimate story draws not only on a wealth of letters, journals, hitherto unpublished sketches and photographs, but also on family legends passed down to the author through four generations. Illuminating, comic and touching, Anny reads like a novel, presenting a unique portrait of the rich literary world that formed the bridge between the Victorians and Bloomsbury.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Anne Thackeray Ritchie

Author: Anne Thackeray Ritchie

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0814206387

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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.

Five Old Friends
Five Old Friends

Author: Anne I. Ritchie

Publisher: Elibron Classics

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1402171129

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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1875, Leipzig

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1137342404

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Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

George Eliot
George Eliot

Author: K. Collins

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1137087668

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Spanning her entire life, the fully annotated selections in this volume include well known recollections of the great Victorian novelist plus a large assortment not found in her biographies. Altogether they provide a fresh, vivid, and sometimes startling portrait of a controversial genius.

Fixing Patriarchy
Fixing Patriarchy

Author: Donald E. Hall

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0814735371

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The 1840s, 50s, and 60s: three decades during which the British feminist movement saw some of its most intense activity of the nineteenth-century, and readers find some of the most monstrous, troubling representations of women by male writers in all of literary history. In Fixing Patriarchy, Donald E. Hall suggests that feminism at mid-century posed intertwined social, economic, political and psychological threats to patriarchy. Hall explores the metamorphic nature of Victorian definitions of masculinity and femininity through an analysis of male authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Kingsley, Thackeray, Hughes, Collins, and Trollope in dialogue with Victorian feminists and other women writers.Synthesizing historical research with pertinent queer, feminist, post-structuralist, and materialist theories, Hall locates both startling admissions of moral fallibility and violent strategies of retrenchment and containment of this perceived threat to the male social body. Fixing Patriarchytraces parallels among Victorian discourses of religion, science, economics, and aesthetics, as it explores a cultural dynamic of un-fixedness and heightened desires for fixity.